On Thu, Feb 03, 2022 at 06:08:55AM +0000, Strahil Nikolov wrote:
> Host-passthrough & nested virtualization are mandatory.

Yes indeed.  I don't know if I missed this in the docs, but it wasn't
obvious.  However using host-passthrough fixed it.

Rich.

> Best Regards,
> Strahil Nikolov
> 
> 
>     On Wed, Feb 2, 2022 at 18:54, Richard W.M. Jones
>     <[email protected]> wrote:
>     On Wed, Feb 02, 2022 at 05:42:33PM +0200, Juhani Rautiainen wrote:
>     > Hi!
>     >
>     > Maybe you have to modify qemu VM CPU settings? I mean that usually if
>     > you don't see the svm flag on AMD CPU, virtualization is not
>     > available. This page suggests changes to qemu CPU model:
>     > https://techviewleo.com/how-to-enable-nested-virtualization-on-kvm-qemu/
>     >
>     > I think that the "host-passthrough" setting should let all the CPU
>     > flags go through to the VM
>     > (https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/LibvirtXMLCPUModel).
> 
>     Yes, thank you, you are absolutely right.
> 
>     I had the CPU model set to "host-model" (where libvirt tries to create
>     a model approximating the host).  Changing it to "host-passthrough"
>     (ie. same as qemu -cpu host) fixed it and allowed me to install oVirt
>     node in the guest and activate it.
> 
>     Rich.
> 
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