Jared Greenwald wrote: > I'm trying to get a pre-built vmware image of Windows running on > ubuntu 7.10. I tried running qemu directly on the vmdk file, but that > is extremely slow. For example, it takes about a minute to get the > context menu to come up when you right-click on the desktop. I tried > converting the vmdk to qcow, qcow2 and raw formats, but I get an error > saying that the drive is not bootable. I looked through the help > pages and there is information about loading the kvm-intel module, but > I'm getting the "not supported" error message. I looked into updating > the bios as this is usually pointed to as the cause and it appears I'm > at the most recent version. > > So, the question is, am I missing something or am I doing something wrong? >
To be clear, are you running "modprobe kvm_intel" and it's returning "not supported"? Did you install kvm with apt-get? When you run "cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep flags", do you see "vmx" in the list of flags? Cam ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ kvm-devel mailing list kvm-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/kvm-devel