[MinnowBoard] Hardware Virtualization support in Minnowboard Max?

[Supriti Singh]

For my board as well, it shows the vmx flags. But kvm fails to detect
hardware support.

Could it be that firmware has disabled it somehow?

On Wed, Feb 17, 2016 at 11:44 PM, John Hawley <john.hawley at intel.com> wrote:

> 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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