[OmniOS-discuss] oracle vm server in kvm enabled zone

[pieter van puymbroeck]

Hello,

Currently I'm building a new homelab based on omnios (omnios-r151018)

There a kvm enabled zone is created and inside the zone I have 3 kvm-guests running. These guests are running oracle vm (xen based). All is running fine except if I want to start a linux-testvm inside oracle vm, the system complains about:


Error: HVM guest support is unavailable: is VT/AMD-V supported by your CPU and enabled in your BIOS?


Inside the kvm enabled zone, kvm is enabled:

root at ovm1:/root# ls -l /dev/kvm

crw------- 1 root sys 125, 0 Aug 10 12:48 /dev/kvm

root at ovm1:/root# modinfo |grep -i kvm

207 fffffffff840a000  3a030 125   1  kvm (kvm driver v0.1)

root at ovm1:/root#


For sure I checked the processor itself from the global zone if it is supported:

# isainfo -v

64-bit amd64 applications

vmx pclmulqdq aes sse4.2 sse4.1 ssse3 popcnt tscp cx16 sse3 sse2

sse fxsr mmx cmov amd_sysc cx8 tsc fpu

32-bit i386 applications

vmx pclmulqdq aes sse4.2 sse4.1 ssse3 popcnt tscp ahf cx16 sse3

sse2 sse fxsr mmx cmov sep cx8 tic fpu

#



and to me it looks I have the required flags available.

inside the lvm-guest the flags are indeed not given to the guest:


[root at ovm2 ~]# uname -s -r -i -p

Linux 2.6.39-400.279.1.el5uek x86_64 x86_64

[root at ovm2 ~]# cat /etc/oracle-release

Oracle VM Server release 5.7

[root at ovm2 ~]# grep flags /proc/cpuinfo

flags : fpu de tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mca cmov pat clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss syscall nx lm constant_tsc up nopl pni ssse3 cx16 sse4_1 sse4_2 popcnt aes hypervisor lahf_lm

[root at ovm2 ~]#


it does not matter if I start the kvm guest using

-cpu host \

or using

-cpu qemu64,+vmx,+aes,+sse4.2,+sse4.1,+ssse3 \  # --> this one is faster


despite I have an intel cpu I use the -enable-nested flag as well, but it doesn't seem to make a difference.


How can I fix this?


Thanks and best regards,

Pieter
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