[MinnowBoard] Hardware Virtualization support in Minnowboard Max?

John Hawley john.hawley at intel.com
Wed Feb 17 22:44:59 UTC 2016


grep vmx /proc/cpuinfo on a 0.83 shows up for me.

So it's enabled in the hardware, it's likely your Yocto derived kernel /
distro doesn't have the right things turned on for kvm.  I've pinged the
Yocto guys to see if they have any suggestions.

- John

On 02/17/2016 08:55 AM, John Hawley wrote:
> I can only assume it's gotten turned off in the firmware as (admittedly
> this is a little old):
> 
> http://wiki.minnowboard.org/IntelE38xx
> 
> shows vmx being present in the cpuflags.  I'll check on a live board
> when I get into the office.  To the best of my knowledge we don't have
> an on/off toggle for that in the firmware, so if it's missing the
> firmware team may have disabled it (though I don't remember any errata
> to that effect).
> 
> Let me do some checking and I'll get back to the list.
> 
> - John 'Warthog9' Hawley
> 
> On 2/17/2016 6:15 AM, Supriti Singh wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> As I understood MinnowBoard Max support hardware virtualization.
>>
>> grep vmx /proc/cpuinfo shows the flags. 
>>
>> I am running yocto  "core-image-sato"
>>
>> When I boot, dmesg|grep kvm prints out 
>>
>> * kvm: no hardware support*
>>
>> Do I need to enable it in UEFI? If yes then how can I do it. 
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Supriti 
>>
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