Re: [CentOS] Xen cpu requirements

2010-07-19 Thread David Dyer-Bennet
On Mon, July 19, 2010 04:38, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: > On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 02:12:52PM -0500, David Dyer-Bennet wrote: >> >> On Wed, July 14, 2010 14:09, Brian Mathis wrote: >> >> > Are you checking the stats from inside the dom0 or a domU? What's the >> > output of 'uname -a'? >> >> In dom0; I

Re: [CentOS] Xen cpu requirements

2010-07-19 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 02:12:52PM -0500, David Dyer-Bennet wrote: > > On Wed, July 14, 2010 14:09, Brian Mathis wrote: > > > Are you checking the stats from inside the dom0 or a domU? What's the > > output of 'uname -a'? > > In dom0; I haven't gone ahead creating domUs yet, until I'm sure I've

Re: [CentOS] Xen cpu requirements

2010-07-15 Thread Emmanuel Noobadmin
On 7/15/10, Victor Padro wrote: > AFAIK, VT-d is only implemented LGA 1156/P55 and 34XX Chipsets: > http://www.intel.com/products/server/chipsets/3400-3420/3400-3420-overview.htm AFAIK from the last couple of weeks of looking for suitable parts, some of the desktop Q series chipsets (Q35, Q45 acc

Re: [CentOS] Xen cpu requirements

2010-07-14 Thread JohnS
On Wed, 2010-07-14 at 16:17 -0400, R P Herrold wrote: > * chuckle * > > The other thing might be to use that device you hold beside > the ear and the mouth, and let the magic voices ask you for > your chassis' Service tag or Express Service Code -- the > voices know all sorts of information a

Re: [CentOS] Xen cpu requirements

2010-07-14 Thread David Dyer-Bennet
On Wed, July 14, 2010 14:20, Whit Blauvelt wrote: > On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 01:47:00PM -0500, David Dyer-Bennet wrote: > >> I found one BIOS entry, "Virtualization technology"; it was initially >> disabled, but I enabled it before I installed CENTOS, and verified that >> it >> was still enabled la

[CentOS] Xen cpu requirements

2010-07-14 Thread R P Herrold
On Wed, 14 Jul 2010, David Dyer-Bennet wrote: >> continues to issue them while it remains in support, >> particularly for the PowerEdge series > > This is a brand-new R310, received from Dell and installed this week. > Which doesn't mean it's for sure at the latest BIOS level of course. * chuckle

Re: [CentOS] Xen cpu requirements

2010-07-14 Thread David Dyer-Bennet
On Wed, July 14, 2010 15:08, Paul Heinlein wrote: > On Wed, 14 Jul 2010, David Dyer-Bennet wrote: > >> The flags from /proc/cpuinfo after this reboot where I checked the >> virtualization setting in the bios are: >> >> flags : fpu tsc msr pae cx8 apic mtrr cmov pat clflush acpi >> mmx >>

Re: [CentOS] Xen cpu requirements

2010-07-14 Thread David Dyer-Bennet
On Wed, July 14, 2010 14:57, R P Herrold wrote: > On Wed, 14 Jul 2010, David Dyer-Bennet wrote: > >>> That's the entry. But reports are some systems need to be >>> fully powered off for the entry to be effectively changed - >>> some BIOSes evidently are flakey about it. >> >> Now *there's* somethi

Re: [CentOS] Xen cpu requirements

2010-07-14 Thread Paul Heinlein
On Wed, 14 Jul 2010, David Dyer-Bennet wrote: > The flags from /proc/cpuinfo after this reboot where I checked the > virtualization setting in the bios are: > > flags : fpu tsc msr pae cx8 apic mtrr cmov pat clflush acpi mmx > fxsr sse sse2 ss ht syscall nx lm constant_tsc ida pni est s

[CentOS] Xen cpu requirements

2010-07-14 Thread R P Herrold
On Wed, 14 Jul 2010, David Dyer-Bennet wrote: >> That's the entry. But reports are some systems need to be >> fully powered off for the entry to be effectively changed - >> some BIOSes evidently are flakey about it. > > Now *there's* something I wouldn't have thought of trying on my own. > > Oka

Re: [CentOS] Xen cpu requirements

2010-07-14 Thread Victor Padro
On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 2:28 PM, Stephen Harris wrote: > On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 02:20:10PM -0500, Victor Padro wrote: >> they're not explicit as I stated but perhaps it just states as VT-D or >> something that you may overlooked it. > > VT-d (Virtualization Technology for Directed I/O) is virtual

Re: [CentOS] Xen cpu requirements

2010-07-14 Thread David Dyer-Bennet
On Wed, July 14, 2010 14:20, Whit Blauvelt wrote: > On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 01:47:00PM -0500, David Dyer-Bennet wrote: > >> I found one BIOS entry, "Virtualization technology"; it was initially >> disabled, but I enabled it before I installed CENTOS, and verified that >> it >> was still enabled la

Re: [CentOS] Xen cpu requirements

2010-07-14 Thread Stephen Harris
On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 02:20:10PM -0500, Victor Padro wrote: > they're not explicit as I stated but perhaps it just states as VT-D or > something that you may overlooked it. VT-d (Virtualization Technology for Directed I/O) is virtualization for devices. With this it's possible for a guest OS to

Re: [CentOS] Xen cpu requirements

2010-07-14 Thread Victor Padro
> That's the entry. But reports are some systems need to be fully powered off > for the entry to be effectively changed - some BIOSes evidently are flakey > about it. > +1 Totally agree, forgot that... -- Linux User #452368 http://twitter.com/vpadro "Everything that irritates us about others

Re: [CentOS] Xen cpu requirements

2010-07-14 Thread Victor Padro
On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 2:12 PM, David Dyer-Bennet wrote: > > On Wed, July 14, 2010 14:09, Brian Mathis wrote: > >> Are you checking the stats from inside the dom0 or a domU?  What's the >> output of 'uname -a'? > > In dom0; I haven't gone ahead creating domUs yet, until I'm sure I've got > the do

Re: [CentOS] Xen cpu requirements

2010-07-14 Thread Whit Blauvelt
On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 01:47:00PM -0500, David Dyer-Bennet wrote: > I found one BIOS entry, "Virtualization technology"; it was initially > disabled, but I enabled it before I installed CENTOS, and verified that it > was still enabled later (I reported enabling it in my original message). > I'll

Re: [CentOS] Xen cpu requirements

2010-07-14 Thread David Dyer-Bennet
On Wed, July 14, 2010 14:09, Brian Mathis wrote: > Are you checking the stats from inside the dom0 or a domU? What's the > output of 'uname -a'? In dom0; I haven't gone ahead creating domUs yet, until I'm sure I've got the dom0 right. [local...@prcapp00 ~]$ uname -a Linux prcapp00.pinerivercap

Re: [CentOS] Xen cpu requirements

2010-07-14 Thread Brian Mathis
On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 3:06 PM, David Dyer-Bennet wrote: > On Wed, July 14, 2010 13:07, Victor Padro wrote: > >> I own a Xeon X3430 & X3440 and both have vmx extensions so the X3450, >> please recheck your BIOS config. >> http://ark.intel.com/Product.aspx?id=42929 > > The Intel page certainly say

Re: [CentOS] Xen cpu requirements

2010-07-14 Thread David Dyer-Bennet
On Wed, July 14, 2010 13:07, Victor Padro wrote: > I own a Xeon X3430 & X3440 and both have vmx extensions so the X3450, > please recheck your BIOS config. > http://ark.intel.com/Product.aspx?id=42929 The Intel page certainly says the X3450 has vt-x and vt-d. This system is a Dell Poweredge R31

Re: [CentOS] Xen cpu requirements

2010-07-14 Thread David Dyer-Bennet
On Wed, July 14, 2010 13:03, Kwan Lowe wrote: > On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 1:32 PM, David Dyer-Bennet wrote: >> I'm installing Centos 5.5 on a new Dell R301 server.  I wanted to run >> Xen >> and have the full virtualization possibilities (this is our development >> support server, so it runs a few

Re: [CentOS] Xen cpu requirements

2010-07-14 Thread David Dyer-Bennet
On Wed, July 14, 2010 12:55, Brian Mathis wrote: > On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 1:49 PM, Dominik Zyla > wrote: >> On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 12:32:12PM -0500, David Dyer-Bennet wrote: >>> I'm installing Centos 5.5 on a new Dell R301 server.  I wanted to run >>> Xen >>> and have the full virtualization po

Re: [CentOS] Xen cpu requirements

2010-07-14 Thread David Dyer-Bennet
On Wed, July 14, 2010 12:47, Laurent Wandrebeck wrote: > On Wed, 14 Jul 2010 12:32:12 -0500 > "David Dyer-Bennet" wrote: > >> I'm installing Centos 5.5 on a new Dell R301 server. I wanted to run >> Xen >> and have the full virtualization possibilities (this is our development >> support server,

Re: [CentOS] Xen cpu requirements

2010-07-14 Thread Victor Padro
On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 1:03 PM, Kwan Lowe wrote: > On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 1:32 PM, David Dyer-Bennet wrote: >> I'm installing Centos 5.5 on a new Dell R301 server.  I wanted to run Xen >> and have the full virtualization possibilities (this is our development >> support server, so it runs a few

Re: [CentOS] Xen cpu requirements

2010-07-14 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 1:32 PM, David Dyer-Bennet wrote: > I'm installing Centos 5.5 on a new Dell R301 server.  I wanted to run Xen > and have the full virtualization possibilities (this is our development > support server, so it runs a few real services and is available for > playing with thing

Re: [CentOS] Xen cpu requirements

2010-07-14 Thread Brian Mathis
On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 1:49 PM, Dominik Zyla wrote: > On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 12:32:12PM -0500, David Dyer-Bennet wrote: >> I'm installing Centos 5.5 on a new Dell R301 server.  I wanted to run Xen >> and have the full virtualization possibilities (this is our development >> support server, so it

Re: [CentOS] Xen cpu requirements

2010-07-14 Thread JohnS
On Wed, 2010-07-14 at 12:32 -0500, David Dyer-Bennet wrote: > X3450 Shutdown the machine pull the power cord (s) completly. Let it sit a while plug her back up and they should show now. John ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.cent

Re: [CentOS] Xen cpu requirements

2010-07-14 Thread Dominik Zyla
On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 12:32:12PM -0500, David Dyer-Bennet wrote: > I'm installing Centos 5.5 on a new Dell R301 server. I wanted to run Xen > and have the full virtualization possibilities (this is our development > support server, so it runs a few real services and is available for > playing wi

Re: [CentOS] Xen cpu requirements

2010-07-14 Thread Laurent Wandrebeck
On Wed, 14 Jul 2010 12:32:12 -0500 "David Dyer-Bennet" wrote: > I'm installing Centos 5.5 on a new Dell R301 server. I wanted to run Xen > and have the full virtualization possibilities (this is our development > support server, so it runs a few real services and is available for > playing with

[CentOS] Xen cpu requirements

2010-07-14 Thread David Dyer-Bennet
I'm installing Centos 5.5 on a new Dell R301 server. I wanted to run Xen and have the full virtualization possibilities (this is our development support server, so it runs a few real services and is available for playing with things; putting the "playing with things" functions into virtual servers