Re: [CentOS] Xen cpu requirements

2010-07-19 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 02:12:52PM -0500, David Dyer-Bennet wrote: On Wed, July 14, 2010 14:09, Brian Mathis wrote: Are you checking the stats from inside the dom0 or a domU? What's the output of 'uname -a'? In dom0; I haven't gone ahead creating domUs yet, until I'm sure I've got

Re: [CentOS] Xen cpu requirements

2010-07-19 Thread David Dyer-Bennet
On Mon, July 19, 2010 04:38, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 02:12:52PM -0500, David Dyer-Bennet wrote: On Wed, July 14, 2010 14:09, Brian Mathis wrote: Are you checking the stats from inside the dom0 or a domU? What's the output of 'uname -a'? In dom0; I haven't gone

Re: [CentOS] Xen cpu requirements

2010-07-15 Thread Emmanuel Noobadmin
On 7/15/10, Victor Padro vpa...@gmail.com wrote: AFAIK, VT-d is only implemented LGA 1156/P55 and 34XX Chipsets: http://www.intel.com/products/server/chipsets/3400-3420/3400-3420-overview.htm AFAIK from the last couple of weeks of looking for suitable parts, some of the desktop Q series

Re: [CentOS] Xen cpu requirements

2010-07-14 Thread Laurent Wandrebeck
On Wed, 14 Jul 2010 12:32:12 -0500 David Dyer-Bennet d...@dd-b.net wrote: I'm installing Centos 5.5 on a new Dell R301 server. I wanted to run Xen and have the full virtualization possibilities (this is our development support server, so it runs a few real services and is available for

Re: [CentOS] Xen cpu requirements

2010-07-14 Thread Dominik Zyla
On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 12:32:12PM -0500, David Dyer-Bennet wrote: I'm installing Centos 5.5 on a new Dell R301 server. I wanted to run Xen and have the full virtualization possibilities (this is our development support server, so it runs a few real services and is available for playing with

Re: [CentOS] Xen cpu requirements

2010-07-14 Thread JohnS
On Wed, 2010-07-14 at 12:32 -0500, David Dyer-Bennet wrote: X3450 Shutdown the machine pull the power cord (s) completly. Let it sit a while plug her back up and they should show now. John ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

Re: [CentOS] Xen cpu requirements

2010-07-14 Thread Brian Mathis
On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 1:49 PM, Dominik Zyla gavro...@gavroche.pl wrote: On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 12:32:12PM -0500, David Dyer-Bennet wrote: I'm installing Centos 5.5 on a new Dell R301 server.  I wanted to run Xen and have the full virtualization possibilities (this is our development support

Re: [CentOS] Xen cpu requirements

2010-07-14 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 1:32 PM, David Dyer-Bennet d...@dd-b.net wrote: I'm installing Centos 5.5 on a new Dell R301 server.  I wanted to run Xen and have the full virtualization possibilities (this is our development support server, so it runs a few real services and is available for playing

Re: [CentOS] Xen cpu requirements

2010-07-14 Thread Victor Padro
On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 1:03 PM, Kwan Lowe kwan.l...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 1:32 PM, David Dyer-Bennet d...@dd-b.net wrote: I'm installing Centos 5.5 on a new Dell R301 server.  I wanted to run Xen and have the full virtualization possibilities (this is our development

Re: [CentOS] Xen cpu requirements

2010-07-14 Thread David Dyer-Bennet
On Wed, July 14, 2010 12:47, Laurent Wandrebeck wrote: On Wed, 14 Jul 2010 12:32:12 -0500 David Dyer-Bennet d...@dd-b.net wrote: I'm installing Centos 5.5 on a new Dell R301 server. I wanted to run Xen and have the full virtualization possibilities (this is our development support server,

Re: [CentOS] Xen cpu requirements

2010-07-14 Thread David Dyer-Bennet
On Wed, July 14, 2010 12:55, Brian Mathis wrote: On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 1:49 PM, Dominik Zyla gavro...@gavroche.pl wrote: On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 12:32:12PM -0500, David Dyer-Bennet wrote: I'm installing Centos 5.5 on a new Dell R301 server.  I wanted to run Xen and have the full

Re: [CentOS] Xen cpu requirements

2010-07-14 Thread David Dyer-Bennet
On Wed, July 14, 2010 13:03, Kwan Lowe wrote: On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 1:32 PM, David Dyer-Bennet d...@dd-b.net wrote: I'm installing Centos 5.5 on a new Dell R301 server.  I wanted to run Xen and have the full virtualization possibilities (this is our development support server, so it runs a

Re: [CentOS] Xen cpu requirements

2010-07-14 Thread David Dyer-Bennet
On Wed, July 14, 2010 13:07, Victor Padro wrote: I own a Xeon X3430 X3440 and both have vmx extensions so the X3450, please recheck your BIOS config. http://ark.intel.com/Product.aspx?id=42929 The Intel page certainly says the X3450 has vt-x and vt-d. This system is a Dell Poweredge R310,

Re: [CentOS] Xen cpu requirements

2010-07-14 Thread Brian Mathis
On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 3:06 PM, David Dyer-Bennet d...@dd-b.net wrote: On Wed, July 14, 2010 13:07, Victor Padro wrote: I own a Xeon X3430 X3440 and both have vmx extensions so the X3450, please recheck your BIOS config. http://ark.intel.com/Product.aspx?id=42929 The Intel page certainly

Re: [CentOS] Xen cpu requirements

2010-07-14 Thread David Dyer-Bennet
On Wed, July 14, 2010 14:09, Brian Mathis wrote: Are you checking the stats from inside the dom0 or a domU? What's the output of 'uname -a'? In dom0; I haven't gone ahead creating domUs yet, until I'm sure I've got the dom0 right. [local...@prcapp00 ~]$ uname -a Linux

Re: [CentOS] Xen cpu requirements

2010-07-14 Thread Whit Blauvelt
On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 01:47:00PM -0500, David Dyer-Bennet wrote: I found one BIOS entry, Virtualization technology; it was initially disabled, but I enabled it before I installed CENTOS, and verified that it was still enabled later (I reported enabling it in my original message). I'll

Re: [CentOS] Xen cpu requirements

2010-07-14 Thread Victor Padro
On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 2:12 PM, David Dyer-Bennet d...@dd-b.net wrote: On Wed, July 14, 2010 14:09, Brian Mathis wrote: Are you checking the stats from inside the dom0 or a domU?  What's the output of 'uname -a'? In dom0; I haven't gone ahead creating domUs yet, until I'm sure I've got

Re: [CentOS] Xen cpu requirements

2010-07-14 Thread Victor Padro
That's the entry. But reports are some systems need to be fully powered off for the entry to be effectively changed - some BIOSes evidently are flakey about it. +1 Totally agree, forgot that... -- Linux User #452368 http://twitter.com/vpadro Everything that irritates us about others can

Re: [CentOS] Xen cpu requirements

2010-07-14 Thread Stephen Harris
On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 02:20:10PM -0500, Victor Padro wrote: they're not explicit as I stated but perhaps it just states as VT-D or something that you may overlooked it. VT-d (Virtualization Technology for Directed I/O) is virtualization for devices. With this it's possible for a guest OS to

Re: [CentOS] Xen cpu requirements

2010-07-14 Thread David Dyer-Bennet
On Wed, July 14, 2010 14:20, Whit Blauvelt wrote: On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 01:47:00PM -0500, David Dyer-Bennet wrote: I found one BIOS entry, Virtualization technology; it was initially disabled, but I enabled it before I installed CENTOS, and verified that it was still enabled later (I

Re: [CentOS] Xen cpu requirements

2010-07-14 Thread Victor Padro
On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 2:28 PM, Stephen Harris li...@spuddy.org wrote: On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 02:20:10PM -0500, Victor Padro wrote: they're not explicit as I stated but perhaps it just states as VT-D or something that you may overlooked it. VT-d (Virtualization Technology for Directed I/O)

Re: [CentOS] Xen cpu requirements

2010-07-14 Thread Paul Heinlein
On Wed, 14 Jul 2010, David Dyer-Bennet wrote: The flags from /proc/cpuinfo after this reboot where I checked the virtualization setting in the bios are: flags : fpu tsc msr pae cx8 apic mtrr cmov pat clflush acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht syscall nx lm constant_tsc ida pni est ssse3

Re: [CentOS] Xen cpu requirements

2010-07-14 Thread David Dyer-Bennet
On Wed, July 14, 2010 14:57, R P Herrold wrote: On Wed, 14 Jul 2010, David Dyer-Bennet wrote: That's the entry. But reports are some systems need to be fully powered off for the entry to be effectively changed - some BIOSes evidently are flakey about it. Now *there's* something I wouldn't

Re: [CentOS] Xen cpu requirements

2010-07-14 Thread David Dyer-Bennet
On Wed, July 14, 2010 15:08, Paul Heinlein wrote: On Wed, 14 Jul 2010, David Dyer-Bennet wrote: The flags from /proc/cpuinfo after this reboot where I checked the virtualization setting in the bios are: flags : fpu tsc msr pae cx8 apic mtrr cmov pat clflush acpi mmx fxsr sse

Re: [CentOS] Xen cpu requirements

2010-07-14 Thread David Dyer-Bennet
On Wed, July 14, 2010 14:20, Whit Blauvelt wrote: On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 01:47:00PM -0500, David Dyer-Bennet wrote: I found one BIOS entry, Virtualization technology; it was initially disabled, but I enabled it before I installed CENTOS, and verified that it was still enabled later (I

Re: [CentOS] Xen cpu requirements

2010-07-14 Thread JohnS
On Wed, 2010-07-14 at 16:17 -0400, R P Herrold wrote: * chuckle * The other thing might be to use that device you hold beside the ear and the mouth, and let the magic voices ask you for your chassis' Service tag or Express Service Code -- the voices know all sorts of information about