From: adam@address.invalid   
      
   Aragorn wrote:   
   > On Friday 03 August 2012 21:32, Adam conveyed the following to   
   > alt.os.linux.mandriva...   
   >> [root@stolid ~]# modprobe -v kvm-amd   
   >> insmod /lib/modules/3.0.37-1mdv/kernel/arch/x86/kvm/kvm.ko.gz   
   >> insmod /lib/modules/3.0.37-1mdv/kernel/arch/x86/kvm/kvm-amd.ko.gz   
   >> FATAL: Error inserting kvm_amd   
   >> (/lib/modules/3.0.37-1mdv/kernel/arch/x86/kvm/kvm-amd.ko.gz):   
   >> Operation not supported   
   >> [root@stolid ~]# dmesg | grep kvm   
   >> kvm: disabled by bios   
   >> [root@stolid ~]#   
   >>   
   >> It looks like there's something in the BIOS disabling kvm   
   >   
   > kvm is not a BIOS issue.  It is the Linux Kernel Virtual Machine, a   
   > hypervisor built into the kernel itself (or as a loadable module), but   
   > it requires a userspace component - a modified version of Qemu, although   
   > it can now also use unmodified Qemu.   
   >   
   > In esssence, kvm allows Linux to behave as a hypervisor, and thus to   
   > virtualize and to schedule virtual machines directly.  You do however   
   > still need Qemu because kvm does not provide any emulation.   
      
   Thanks for the information!  I know nothing about virtualization beyond   
   what it takes to run VirtualBox and VMware.  What should be my next step   
   here to create and run 64-bit virtual machines?  I just installed 64-bit   
   Qemu from the Mandriva 2011.0 repository, but that seems to be something   
   like a standalone program.  Trying to load the kvm-amd module into the   
   kernel is what causes the "kvm: disabled by bios" message to be generated.   
      
   Adam   
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