`<font face="Default Sans Serif,Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif" size="2"><div>Hmm, that was kinda' bad news....got a good bunch of servers with Xeon 54xx-series on them. Thought I could use'm..</div><div><br></div><div>I studied a little bit more about KVM and Illumos distros, and it also seems that libvirt isn't supported...</div><div><br></div><div>I just installed my first OmniOS on my Fc SAN, and it went smooth and fine, but this news sort of put a grey curtain on my enthusiasm.</div><div><br></div><div>I do really like the zones, and of coarse the stability of the OS, but I sure like libvirt and the more developed qemu-kvm on Linux.</div><div><br></div><div>So for me, it seems like I have to run two sort of clusters, one OmniOS with zones, and one Linux with libvirt/kvm.</div><div><br></div><div>Which is of coarse not such a big deal....</div><div><br></div><div>Rgrds Johan</div><br><br><font color="#990099">-----omnios-discuss-bounces@lists.omniti.com skrev: -----</font><div style="padding-left:5px;"><div style="padding-right:0px;padding-left:5px;border-left:solid black 2px;">Till: omnios-discuss@lists.omniti.com<br>Från: Alex Wilson <alex@cooperi.net><br>Sänt av: omnios-discuss-bounces@lists.omniti.com<br>Datum: 2012.12.09 11:58<br>Ärende: Re: [OmniOS-discuss] newbie virtualisation question<br><br><div><font face="Courier New,Courier,monospace" size="3">On 09/12/12 06:53, Michael Mounteney wrote:<br>> On Fri, 7 Dec 2012 23:04:50 -0800<br>> "Paul B. Henson" <henson@acm.org> wrote:<br>><br>>> From <a href="http://omnios.omniti.com/wiki.php/VirtualMachinesKVM">http://omnios.omniti.com/wiki.php/VirtualMachinesKVM</a><br>>><br>>> # add_drv kvm<br>> Thanks Paul. Now:<br>><br>> root@world:~# add_drv kvm<br>> devfsadm: driver failed to attach: kvm<br>> Warning: Driver (kvm) successfully added to system but failed to attach<br>><br>> That warning is a 'bad thing' and AFAICT from searching, means that there's something wrong with the hardware, or similar. Any ideas ?<br>><br><br>The E5405 is a Harpertown Xeon (based on Penryn), which only has VT-x <br>and not the necessary EPT capabilities to be able to use illumos KVM. <br>The Intel ARK website is a liar, and claims that all VT-x CPUs have EPT <br>-- only Nehalem-based Xeons have this capability. There has been some <br>work to enable illumos to use KVM with pre-EPT Intel chips, but it <br>currently crashes at startup of a VM and is as yet unuseable. So I'm <br>afraid you're stuck without KVM on your current hardware, at least for now.<br><br>Regards,<br>Alex.<br>_______________________________________________<br>OmniOS-discuss mailing list<br>OmniOS-discuss@lists.omniti.com<br><a href="http://lists.omniti.com/mailman/listinfo/omnios-discuss">http://lists.omniti.com/mailman/listinfo/omnios-discuss</a><br></font></div></alex@cooperi.net></div></div><div></div></font>`