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Sony's Crippled Intel VT Support

Posted by: Abelardo Ricart

Tagged in: kvm

Abelardo Ricart

A funny thing happened when I recently attempted to create a KVM virtual machine on my Sony Vaio laptop. Upon loading the kvm-intel.ko kernel module, I receive a rather peculiar error message:

 kvm: disabled by BIOS

Disabled by BIOS? Although the error really didn't say much, I could only assume that somehow the BIOS provided by Sony for my laptop disabled Intel VT by default. A bit of googling turned up this article, as well as this KB article from Sony, showing my assumption to be correct.


The battleground has shifted from the Operating System to the hypervisor, and Linux has a clear role to play. One of the most important modern innovations of Linux is its transformation into a hypervisor. Learn how KVM and Lguest paly an important role in this trend.

 


VIZZ.INFO

Posted by: clive darr

Tagged in: xen , virtualization , virtualisation , kvm , grid , cloud

clive darr

Virtualisation Information

VIZZ.INFO


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