[OpenIndiana-discuss] Boot errors I need to understand and possibly deal with, please advise!

Hans J. Albertsson hans.j.albertsson at branneriet.se
Tue Mar 19 18:08:38 UTC 2013


Thanks. Knowledge was all I was after. I shall disable the KVM stuff

On 2013-03-19 18:40, Jonathan Adams wrote:
> On 19 March 2013 16:37, Hans J. Albertsson
> <hans.j.albertsson at branneriet.se> wrote:
>> On 2013-03-19 15:15, Jonathan Adams wrote:
>>> On 19 March 2013 13:51, Hans J. Albertsson <hans.j.albertsson at branneriet.se> wrote:
>>>> 3. WARNING: kvm: insufficient hardware support (lacking EPT)
>>>> Huh??? The CPU is a Xeon 3330. Intel says that has VT and EPT support,
>>>> and
>>>> I've enabled VT and VT-d support in the BIOS. What gives?? Is Intel
>>>> lying???
>>>>
>>> what are your outputs to "psrinfo -v" and "isainfo -v" ?
> ...
>
>> 64-bit amd64 applications
>>      vmx xsave sse4.1 ssse3 cx16 sse3 sse2 sse fxsr mmx cmov amd_sysc cx8
>>
>>      tsc fpu
>> 32-bit i386 applications
>>      vmx xsave sse4.1 ssse3 ahf cx16 sse3 sse2 sse fxsr mmx cmov sep cx8
>>      tsc fpu
>>
>>
>> I e very much the same as your result.
>>
>> And what does that tell us about what to do about the error message??
> I know when running KVM on Linux that there are issues with the CPU
> not passing vmx ... and there are settings in the BIOS to deal with
> this ...
>
> *slaps forehead*
>
> I've just realised that you have VirtualBox installed ... you cannot
> have KVM and Virtualbox Installed, you have to choose.
>
> I have VirtualBox on my laptop (with the error you get above), and KVM
> on the server (with no error), but they don't mix.
>
> I had real trouble on my laptop when I had KVM installed and tried
> using VirtualBox, so I just de-installed the KVM on the laptop and
> everything is working fine.
>
> Jon
>
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