RE: [Xen-users] VT Requirement

Faraz Khan
Mon, 15 Mar 2010 21:46:57 -0000

Actually, my team mate informs me that he was trying to run Xen Server 5.5
inside a Windows 2008 HyperVisor VM.  That''s why he was getting a HVM
required message.  We are just trying out Xen for the first time and did not
have a physical server to spare.  The error message we get is "HVM is
required for this operation".

Is this type of setup not possible where XenServer is inside a VM?  I have
previously tried VMWare ESX server using the same technique and it worked just
fine.

I have heard there may be a specially modified (paravirtualized??) version of
linux that can be run without HVM support.  Do you know what those are and where
I can find them?




-----Original Message-----
From: xen-users-bounces@lists.xensource.com
[mailto:xen-users-bounces@lists.xensource.com] On Behalf Of alberto
Sent: Monday, March 15, 2010 4:09 AM
Cc: xen-users@lists.xensource.com
Subject: Re: [Xen-users] VT Requirement

Paste here, the DomU configuration...

I assume that you use HVM, not paravirtualization.

On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 05:29:20PM -0700, Faraz Khan
wrote:
> During  installation of Xen Server  I received a warning that my processor
does not support VT, therefore Windows guests cannot be started, which is fine
by me.  However it appears I cannot built any VM regardless of the OS without
getting the same error.  In fact I cannot even start a blank VM.