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Hi all
We have an issue about xen. We test XEN 3 on an Intel VT machine
(Dual-Core Intel® Xeon® Processor 5100 Series), on SUSE Linux Enterprise
Server 10.
After we boot from the XEN kernel, we started to configure a new
Microsoft Windows guest machine by selecting Full Virtualization in
YaST. After completing configuration using YaST and try to start the
guest machine, An error message:

"Not an HVM capable platform, we stop creating!"

knowing that VT is enabled in BIOS.
We tried to do some test to check if VT is enabled:

# xm dmesg|grep VMX

(XEN) VMX disabled by Feature Control MSR.
(XEN) VMX disabled by Feature Control MSR.
(XEN) VMX disabled by Feature Control MSR.
(XEN) VMX disabled by Feature Control MSR.

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#xm info

host : linux-oo1w
release : 2.6.16.21-0.8-xen
version : #1 SMP Mon Jul 3 18:25:39 UTC 2006
machine : x86_64
nr_cpus : 4
nr_nodes : 1
sockets_per_node : 2
cores_per_socket : 2
threads_per_core : 1
cpu_mhz : 1995
hw_caps :
bfebfbff:20100800:00000000:00000140:0004e33d:00000000:00000001
total_memory : 1018
free_memory : 61
max_free_memory : 794
xen_major : 3
xen_minor : 0
xen_extra : .2_09749-0.4
xen_caps : xen-3.0-x86_64
platform_params : virt_start=0xffff800000000000
xen_changeset : 09749
cc_compiler : gcc version 4.1.0 (SUSE Linux)
cc_compile_by : abuild
cc_compile_domain : suse.de
cc_compile_date : Mon Jul 3 19:14:47 UTC 2006

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#cat /etc/SUSE-release

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 (x86_64)
VERSION = 10

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# uname -a

Linux linux-oo1w 2.6.16.21-0.8-xen #1 SMP Mon Jul 3 18:25:39 UTC 2006
x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
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#rpm -qa|grep xenxen-libs-32bit-3.0.2_09749-0.4

xen-tools-3.0.2_09749-0.4
xen-tools-ioemu-3.0.2_09749-0.4
xen-libs-3.0.2_09749-0.4
kernel-xen-2.6.16.21-0.8
xen-3.0.2_09749-0.4
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- Is the VT enabled by default in XEN kernel?
- If Not, Is there any method to enable VT in Kernel?




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Mohamed Zohny <mohamad.zohny@gmail.com>
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