On Friday 09 March 2012 10:16:48 Jon Dowland wrote: > On Thu, Mar 08, 2012 at 06:52:03PM -0500, Neal Murphy wrote: > > Howdy! > > > > A friend is having the devil's own time trying to get qemu-kvm working > > for himself. I have no such trouble. > > > > We are both using Squeeze. I have a quad Phenom-II with 8GB RAM, nVidia > > video. He has a dual Athlon with 3GB RAM, ATI video (and recently bought > > and tried an nVidia AGP card). Both CPUs support HV. > > But is it enabled? It is disabled by default in most BIOSes.
He says it is enabled. And double-checked it to be sure. > > > I wrote a bash script that greatly simplifies and greatly automates > > configuring and running KVM VMs while avoiding network/vdisk collisions > > among them. > > I prefer virt-manager for this, but each to their own :-) I'm sure virt-manager is very nice. But there are no GUIs where I'm going: no X11, no vnc, no kde or gnome. Only plain old command line (POCL). > > > I am at a loss to explain. He had the same problem on an older system > > using qemu (no KVM) on an athlon that did not support HV. > > That suggests that HV is not available on his new machine - most probably > disabled. Are you saying that qemu should not be expected to work on a non-HV-enabled system? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201203091156.53905.neal.p.mur...@alum.wpi.edu
