Beartooth wrote: > What of Rahul's comment, further up the thread, saying "KVM > (assuming you have the hardware support) with Virt-manager (if you > need a GUI)"?? > > How do we tell if we have the hardware it takes? (And I for one > do need a GUI for anything very complicated.) You need a fairly recent processor: I think anything multicore from AMD has support, whereas Intel chips may or may not have it depending on how Intel feels. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Docs/Fedora8VirtQuickStart#Fully-virtualized_guests_.28HVM.2FIntel-VT.2FAMD-V.29 says: To run fully virtualized guests in Xen or KVM, host CPU support is needed. This is typically referred to as Intel VT, or AMD-V. To check for Intel VT support look for the ‘vmx’ flag, or for AMD-V support check for ‘svm’ flag: ....For Intel.... grep vmx /proc/cpuinfo flags : fpu tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic mtrr mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm syscall nx lm constant_tsc pni monitor ds_cpl vmx est tm2 cx16 xtpr lahf_lm ....For AMD.... grep svm /proc/cpuinfo flags : fpu tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic mtrr mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 ht syscall nx mmxext fxsr_opt rdtscp lm 3dnowext 3dnow pni cx16 lahf_lm cmp_legacy svm cr8_legacy If both those commands return nothing, you don't have hardware virtualisation support. Hope this helps, James. -- E-mail: james@ | Modern technology has given me the ability to fix a aprilcottage.co.uk | haddock to the ceiling. Learned wisdom allows me to | choose not to fix a haddock to the ceiling. | -- Tanuki -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
