The server is a quad amd opteron 64. When I look for svm in cpuinfo: d...@arrakis:~$ cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep svm flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 ht syscall nx mmxext fxsr_opt rdtscp lm 3dnowext 3dnow rep_good extd_apicid pni cx16 lahf_lm cmp_legacy svm extapic cr8_legacy flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 ht syscall nx mmxext fxsr_opt rdtscp lm 3dnowext 3dnow rep_good extd_apicid pni cx16 lahf_lm cmp_legacy svm extapic cr8_legacy flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 ht syscall nx mmxext fxsr_opt rdtscp lm 3dnowext 3dnow rep_good extd_apicid pni cx16 lahf_lm cmp_legacy svm extapic cr8_legacy flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 ht syscall nx mmxext fxsr_opt rdtscp lm 3dnowext 3dnow rep_good extd_apicid pni cx16 lahf_lm cmp_legacy svm extapic cr8_legacy
So the extensions are there. I'll make sure they're not disabled in the bios. Dan H. On 07/20/2010 05:02 PM, Dwight Hubbard wrote: > If the install took 10 hours I would check to make sure you're running > KVM on a processor with hardware virtualization. What you describe > sounds like what I'd expect if it was falling back to using Qemu > emulation instead of KVM. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Daniel Herrington" <[email protected]> > To: "General Linux/UNIX discussion and help; civil and on-topic" > <[email protected]> > Sent: Tuesday, July 20, 2010 11:30:41 AM > Subject: [PLUG] KVM > > All, > > I'm trying KVM out as a replacement for Vmware ESX. I have installed > Ubuntu 10.04 x86_64 on an HP DL360. Setting up a CentOs 5.4 image, the > install took 10 hours. I'm guessing the problem lies in the way I've get > storage pools and volumes setup? > > I originally tried to do a storage pool on a physical disk device, but > had trouble creating a volume on it after. Finally decided to abandon > that in favor of pre-formatted block device storage pool. Has anyone > used pre-formatted block devices with KVM before? > > My reasoning for physical disk, and then the block device storage pools > was I assumed it would be faster than simply a file system directory. > I'm curious if anybody on this list has experience with the best setup > for storage pools? What criteria did you use to determine which type to > go with? > > thanks, > -- > Daniel B. Herrington > Director of Field Services > Robert Mark Technologies > [email protected] > o: 651-769-2574 > m: 503-358-8575 > > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > > > -- > Dwight Hubbard, RHCE/VCP > Email: [email protected] > Phone: 503.941.0327 > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
