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Opteron 250 and amd-v
I've a server with 2 AMD Opteron 250 cpu's. AMD's website seems to
indicate that it should support amd-v but I beg to differ. A DMIDECODE on my Linux server shows no indication of Hardware Virtualization being available for the Opteron 250. I'm a little ****ed about this as I bought this server thinking that that CPU supported Hardware Virtualization and now I'm thinking I've been duped. Any insight would be very helpful. FWIW, the BIOS on the machine is AMI 1.71 and there is nowhere in that BIOS that allows me to enable/disable virtualization. Thanks. Kevin |
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Opteron 250 and amd-v
* kevinm3574:
I've a server with 2 AMD Opteron 250 cpu's. AMD's website seems to indicate that it should support amd-v None of the Socket 940 Opteron 1xx, 2xx and 8xx support AMD-V. For virtualization you need Socket F Opterons (1xxx, 2xxx, 8xxx). Benjamin |
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Opteron 250 and amd-v
On Wed, 16 Dec 2009 14:14:52 -0800, kevinm3574 wrote:
I've a server with 2 AMD Opteron 250 cpu's. AMD's website seems to indicate that it should support amd-v but I beg to differ. A DMIDECODE on my Linux server shows no indication of Hardware Virtualization being available for the Opteron 250. I'm a little ****ed about this as I bought this server thinking that that CPU supported Hardware Virtualization and now I'm thinking I've been duped. Any insight would be very helpful. FWIW, the BIOS on the machine is AMI 1.71 and there is nowhere in that BIOS that allows me to enable/disable virtualization. I don't know much about the Opteron. Maybe this will help. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86_virtualization Or maybe you need a bios upgrade. -- Want the ultimate in free OTA SD/HDTV Recorder? http://mythtv.org My Tivo Experience http://wesnewell.no-ip.com/tivo.htm Tivo HD/S3 compared http://wesnewell.no-ip.com/mythtivo.htm AMD cpu help http://wesnewell.no-ip.com/cpu.php |
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Opteron 250 and amd-v
kevinm3574 writes:
I'm a little ****ed about this as I bought this server thinking that that CPU supported Hardware Virtualization and now I'm thinking I've been duped. Any insight would be very helpful. FWIW, the BIOS on the machine is AMI 1.71 and there is nowhere in that BIOS that allows me to enable/disable virtualization. Dunno about your hardware, but there are reports of BIOSes which intentionally disable CPU virtualization support (and it can't be turned back on). Supposedly the idea is that the maker then charges more for a hardware-identical model where the BIOS _doesn't_ do that. I don't know any actual names though. -Miles -- "An atheist doesn't have to be someone who thinks he has a proof that there can't be a god. He only has to be someone who believes that the evidence on the God question is at a similar level to the evidence on the werewolf question." [John McCarthy] |
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Opteron 250 and amd-v
On 12/16/2009 11:57 PM, Wes Newell wrote:
On Wed, 16 Dec 2009 14:14:52 -0800, kevinm3574 wrote: I've a server with 2 AMD Opteron 250 cpu's. AMD's website seems to indicate that it should support amd-v but I beg to differ. A DMIDECODE on my Linux server shows no indication of Hardware Virtualization being available for the Opteron 250. I'm a little ****ed about this as I bought this server thinking that that CPU supported Hardware Virtualization and now I'm thinking I've been duped. Any insight would be very helpful. FWIW, the BIOS on the machine is AMI 1.71 and there is nowhere in that BIOS that allows me to enable/disable virtualization. I don't know much about the Opteron. Maybe this will help. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86_virtualization Or maybe you need a bios upgrade. A BIOS upgrade won't help in this case as the Opteron 250 does not support AMD-V. Best regards, Steffen |
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