You need to have a AMD or Intel processor that supports Virtualization. Look at /proc/cpuinfo and look at supported extensions:
AMD processor: svm Intel processor: vmx Only 64 bit processors will support these extensions. Dave From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Collins, Kevin [BEELINE] Sent: Thursday, September 10, 2009 1:13 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [rhelv5-list] RHEL5.4 + KVM + x86 32bit? Hi all, I was just perusing the Vritualization Guide (https://www.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/5.4/html/Virtualization_Guide/index.html) and see this note in the section "KVM restrictions and support": "Important KVM only supports AMD64 and Intel 64 versions of Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Other architectures are not supported at this time." I am running Xen on RHEL5 32-bit for a couple years now and want to start exploring KVM, but I don't have any other reason to move to 64-bit... Two questions: 1) Am I correctly interpreting that quote as indicating I can't currently run KVM on my 32-bit RHEL5 (the underlying hardware IS 64-bit Intel)? 2) If I am correct, any idea when/if a 32-bit host will be supported? Thanks, Kevin
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