Ahh, servers me right for not checking the bios settings. AMD Virtual Extensions were disabled.
CentOS install took 15 minutes. Thanks Dwight. On 07/20/2010 10:38 PM, Daniel Herrington wrote: > 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
