Description of problem: Despite exposed flags and SVM enabled in the BIOS - module won't load. Works flawlessly in Virtualbox. vendor_id : AuthenticAMD cpu family : 20 model : 2 model name : AMD E-350D APU with Radeon(tm) HD Graphics stepping : 0 microcode : 0x500010d Flags: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 ht syscall mmxext fxsr_opt pdpe1gb rdtscp lm constant_tsc rep_good nopl nonstop_tsc extd_apicid aperfmperf pni monitor ssse3 cx16 popcnt lahf_lm cmp_legacy svm extapic cr8_legacy abm sse4a misalignsse 3dnowprefetch ibs skinit wdt arat hw_pstate npt lbrv svm_lock nrip_save pausefilter Hardware: AMD APU E350, M/B Gigabyte E350N Win8, F3 BIOS Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): Kernels 3.6.10-4.fc18.x86_64 (release), 3.9.6-200.fc18.x86_64 (latest) How reproducible: For my HW - always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Enable SVM in BIOS 2. Install Fedora 18 3. modprobe kvm_amd Actual results: [root@localhost ~]# modprobe kvm_amd modprobe: ERROR: could not insert 'kvm_amd': Operation not supported [root@localhost ~]# dmesg|tail -n1 [ 1611.001914] kvm: disabled by bios Additional info: AMD-V available in Virtualbox
I confirm that this issue arises even with kernels 3.8.0-27 and 3.10 (tryied on Ubuntu): dmesg shows the message "kvm: disabled by bios" I don't know if Red Hat has the 'kvm-ok' executable, BTW in Ubuntu it says that the machine is capable of running KVM, but KVM is disable. This is the output: # kvm-ok INFO: /dev/kvm does not exist HINT: sudo modprobe kvm_amd INFO: Your CPU supports KVM extensions INFO: KVM (svm) is disabled by your BIOS HINT: Enter your BIOS setup and enable Virtualization Technology (VT), and then hard poweroff/poweron your system KVM acceleration can NOT be used
On Fedora based systems, you can run $ virt-host-validate QEMU: Checking for hardware virtualization : PASS QEMU: Checking for device /dev/kvm : PASS QEMU: Checking for device /dev/vhost-net : PASS QEMU: Checking for device /dev/net/tun : PASS LXC: Checking for Linux >= 2.6.26 : PASS (NOTE: 'libvirt-client' package provide the above tool.)
FYI: we've got pretty heavy email traffic regarding this issue, will update as soon as will confirm the problem.
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*********** MASS BUG UPDATE ************** We apologize for the inconvenience. There is a large number of bugs to go through and several of them have gone stale. It has been over a month since we asked you to test the 3.11 kernel updates and let us know if your issue has been resolved or is still a problem. When this happened, the bug was set to needinfo. Because the needinfo is still set, we assume either this is no longer a problem, or you cannot provide additional information to help us resolve the issue. As a result we are closing with insufficient data. If this is still a problem, we apologize, feel free to reopen the bug and provide more information so that we can work towards a resolution If you experience different issues, please open a new bug report for those.
No HW available for testing - cannot reproduce