[SeaBIOS] enable hvm in SeaBios

Kevin O'Connor kevin at koconnor.net
Wed Aug 10 17:44:39 CEST 2016


On Wed, Aug 10, 2016 at 12:24:25PM +0000, pieter van puymbroeck wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Currently I'm building a new homelab based on omnios.
> 
> There a kvm enabled zone is created and inside the zone I have 3 kvm-guests running. These guests are running oracle vm (xen based). All is running fine except if I want to start an vm inside oracle vm, the system complains about:
> 
> 
> Error: HVM guest support is unavailable: is VT/AMD-V supported by your CPU and enabled in your BIOS?
> 
[...]
> So it looks to me that the bios the kvm is using ( which appears to be SeaBIOS (version 0.6.1.2-20110201_165504-titi) ) is not enabling the nested virtualisation by default. Is this correct?
> 
> 
> How can I fix this?
> 

SeaBIOS doesn't control this.  Instead, this is something that
QEMU/KVM does the setup for.  You can look through the QEMU
documentation for the appropriate flags (and minimum software
versions) or ask on the QEMU/KVM mailing lists.

-Kevin



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