>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
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