windows server 2008 hyper-v on kvm

2010-02-15 Thread Evan Ingram
hi, running windows server 2008 on kvm as guest os. i need to install hyper-v on the guest os but i get the error about my processor not having the correct hardware virtualisation support. i read i should perhaps try running the kvm with '-cpu host' but i still get the same error. any

Re: windows server 2008 hyper-v on kvm

2010-02-15 Thread Gleb Natapov
On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 04:19:55PM +, Evan Ingram wrote: hi, running windows server 2008 on kvm as guest os. i need to install hyper-v on the guest os but i get the error about my processor not having the correct hardware virtualisation support. i read i should perhaps try running the

Re: windows server 2008 hyper-v on kvm

2010-02-15 Thread Rob Earhart
I don't know enough about KVM (yet!) to know whether it virtualizes the virtualization instructions; it's possible to do it, but it's tricky, and I'm not sure how much of a point there would be; I'd be a little surprised if Hyper-V ever ran with any kind of reasonable performance on KVM. )Rob

Re: windows server 2008 hyper-v on kvm

2010-02-15 Thread Jan Kiszka
Gleb Natapov wrote: On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 04:19:55PM +, Evan Ingram wrote: hi, running windows server 2008 on kvm as guest os. i need to install hyper-v on the guest os but i get the error about my processor not having the correct hardware virtualisation support. i read i should

Re: windows server 2008 hyper-v on kvm

2010-02-15 Thread Gleb Natapov
On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 07:22:10PM +0100, Jan Kiszka wrote: Gleb Natapov wrote: On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 04:19:55PM +, Evan Ingram wrote: hi, running windows server 2008 on kvm as guest os. i need to install hyper-v on the guest os but i get the error about my processor not having

Re: windows server 2008 hyper-v on kvm

2010-02-15 Thread Evan Ingram
On 15/02/2010 18:39, Gleb Natapov wrote: I guess original poster needs to clarify what he actually means :) maybe i'm getting the words wrong. ive got an ubuntu 9.10 server with kvm installed on it. ive then installed windows server 2008 into kvm. i now want to install hyper-v in windows

Re: windows server 2008 hyper-v on kvm

2010-02-15 Thread Brian Jackson
On Monday 15 February 2010 12:59:54 Evan Ingram wrote: On 15/02/2010 18:39, Gleb Natapov wrote: I guess original poster needs to clarify what he actually means :) maybe i'm getting the words wrong. ive got an ubuntu 9.10 server with kvm installed on it. ive then installed windows server

Re: windows server 2008 hyper-v on kvm

2010-02-15 Thread Evan Ingram
On 15/02/2010 19:02, Brian Jackson wrote: So you want to run hyper-v guests inside of a kvm guest? So there would be 2 levels of virtualization? It's called nested virtualization. It only currently works with AMD cpus, and even then it's pretty slow unless you've got npt. It's also not very

Re: windows server 2008 hyper-v on kvm

2010-02-15 Thread Alexander Graf
On 15.02.2010, at 20:09, Evan Ingram wrote: On 15/02/2010 19:02, Brian Jackson wrote: So you want to run hyper-v guests inside of a kvm guest? So there would be 2 levels of virtualization? It's called nested virtualization. It only currently works with AMD cpus, and even then it's pretty