Xen users - Feb 2007 - Anyone running Xen on HP DL380 G5? Intel 5150 and 5160 CPU''s?

I''ve got a client demanding the use of HP DL380 G5''s, for
various
historical reasons, for a server room. I''m going nuts trying to figure 
out if the available CPU''s for them support VT, so I  can avoid
building
them a separate Windows box.

Unfortunately, the local web proxy is overloaded, so actually browsing 
the JavaScript/image loaded web pages for HP is actually quite 
difficult. And Intel actually seems to be worse for me....

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Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
> I''ve got a client demanding the use of HP DL380 G5''s, for
various
> historical reasons, for a server room. I''m going nuts trying to
figure
> out if the available CPU''s for them support VT, so I  can avoid
> building them a separate Windows box.
>
> Unfortunately, the local web proxy is overloaded, so actually browsing
> the JavaScript/image loaded web pages for HP is actually quite
> difficult. And Intel actually seems to be worse for me....
Yes, I do have a DL380G5 here. Works fine as it does support VT (like
all latest G models from HP.)

cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor       : 0
vendor_id       : GenuineIntel
cpu family      : 6
model           : 15
model name      : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU            5120  @ 1.86GHz
stepping        : 6
cpu MHz         : 1866.745
cache size      : 4096 KB
physical id     : 0
siblings        : 1
core id         : 0
cpu cores       : 1
fpu             : yes
fpu_exception   : yes
cpuid level     : 10
wp              : yes
flags           : fpu tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic mtrr mca cmov pat pse36
clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm syscall lm constant_tsc pni
monitor ds_cpl vmx est tm2 cx16 xtpr lahf_lm
bogomips        : 4669.09
clflush size    : 64
cache_alignment : 64
address sizes   : 36 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
power management:

Jan


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> > I''ve got a client demanding the use of HP DL380
G5''s, for various
> > historical reasons, for a server room. I''m going nuts 
> > trying to figure
> > out if the available CPU''s for them support VT, so I  can
avoid
> > building them a separate Windows box.
> Yes, I do have a DL380G5 here. Works fine as it does support VT (like
> all latest G models from HP.)
I can confirm that as well. Have successfully run Windows 2003 Server on
top of Xen 3.0.4 on a HP DL380 G5.

Cheers
-- Jan Holst Jensen, Novo Nordisk A/S, Denmark

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Nico,

as already mentioned in the previous posts, the Xeon 51xx CPUs available for 
the 380G5 do support VT. IIRC the 380G5 is also available with Xeon
50xx''s
and those seem not to support VT.

You might need to switch VT on in the BIOS though, a 380G5 I once played with 
(one with a Xeon 5100) came with VT disabled by default.

Cheers,
Florian

On Thursday 15 February 2007 10:05, Nico Kadel-Garcia
wrote:
> I''ve got a client demanding the use of HP DL380 G5''s, for
various
> historical reasons, for a server room. I''m going nuts trying to
figure
> out if the available CPU''s for them support VT, so I  can avoid
building
> them a separate Windows box.
>
> Unfortunately, the local web proxy is overloaded, so actually browsing
> the JavaScript/image loaded web pages for HP is actually quite
> difficult. And Intel actually seems to be worse for me....
>
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On 2/15/07, JHJE (Jan Holst Jensen) <jhje@novonordisk.com>
wrote:
>
> > > I''ve got a client demanding the use of HP DL380
G5''s, for various
> > > historical reasons, for a server room. I''m going nuts
> > > trying to figure
> > > out if the available CPU''s for them support VT, so I 
can avoid
> > > building them a separate Windows box.
>
> > Yes, I do have a DL380G5 here. Works fine as it does support VT (like
> > all latest G models from HP.)
>
> I can confirm that as well. Have successfully run Windows 2003 Server on
> top of Xen 3.0.4 on a HP DL380 G5.

Cool. What are you running for your Dom0? I''ve noticed a few
fascinating
SATA controller intricacies for other hardware with Xen 3.0.3 nad the
published RPM''s for RHEL4.


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