I picked up a ECS AM2 motherboard and AMD BE-2300 cpu at the local Fry's just after Thanksgiving. It was one of those "too good to pass up, but I bet I'll regret it later" purchases. The BE-2300 is one of the 45 watt Athlon X2's, and is supposed to have full AMD-V support. The motherboard (ECS NFORCE6M-A) however, does not appear to have any BIOS options related to virtualization.
I have build 78 up and running, and can configure another paravirtualized instance of the same, but I cannot create any HVM instances. I'm guessing the BIOS pads zeros into some feature register on init, and turns off the AMD-V extensions. My question is, is there anything I can do about the BIOS, or should I pitch the mobo and get something that has virtualization support? I've already checked ECS' website, hoping for a flash fix, and found nothing useful. Can the AMD-V extensions be turned back on without needing a reset? How do we determine which motherboards have BIOS support for virtualization? Rob This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ xen-discuss mailing list [email protected]
