>Hi James, > Can someone please confirm that having EPT support in the CPU is not > necessarily enough to run Bhyve. I have an Intel Xeon L5520 (Nehalem > family) that supports EPT but when trying to run an VM, receive ... > My understanding is that the L5520 does not have support for > "Unrestricted Guest/Real Address Mode" which was introduce with the > release of the Westmere architecture.
> Yes, that's correct. > I assume its a non starter without the unrestricted guest feature. > Mostly. You'll only be able to run single vCPU FreeBSD guests since >they boot directly into 64-bit mode: everything else (including multiple >vCPU guests) requires either 16-bit support or 32-bit non-paged >protected mode, both of which are only available on Intel with the >'unrestricted guest' feature. >later, >Peter. Hi Peter, Thank you for the clarification. It looks like I'll need to purchase a couple to Westmere X5650 CPU's that do have the 'unregistered guest' feature as I need to be able to running multi vcpu FreeBSD vms and Windows. Thank you again for your help. Regards James Lodge _______________________________________________ freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-virtualization To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-virtualization-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
