[OmniOS-discuss] newbie virtualisation question

[Paul B. Henson]

From http://omnios.omniti.com/wiki.php/VirtualMachinesKVM

# add_drv kvm



On Dec 7, 2012, at 10:25 PM, Michael Mounteney <gate03 at landcroft.co.uk> wrote:

> I'd like to try a bit of virtualisation.  So:
> 
>    root at world:~# qemu-system-x86_64 --enable-kvm
>    open /dev/kvm: No such file or directory
>    failed to initialize KVM: Not owner
> 
> Not a good start.  Make sure the bits are installed:
> 
>    root at world:~# pkg list kvm
>    NAME (PUBLISHER)                                  VERSION                    IFO
>    driver/virtualization/kvm                         1.0.3-0.151005             i--
>    system/kvm                                        1.0.3-0.151005             i--
> 
> The machine is a Sun Fire X2250 which has an Intel Xeon E5405 CPU, which according to http://ark.intel.com/Products/VirtualizationTechnology does the necessary VT architecture.  So what is required to create /dev/kvm ?
> 
> -- 
> Michael Mounteney
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