From owner-freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org Mon Aug 28 17:44:36 2017 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-virtualization@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 56372E1103B for ; Mon, 28 Aug 2017 17:44:36 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from grehan@freebsd.org) Received: from alto.onthenet.com.au (alto.OntheNet.com.au [203.13.68.12]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 111BD82602 for ; Mon, 28 Aug 2017 17:44:35 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from grehan@freebsd.org) Received: from iredmail.onthenet.com.au (iredmail.onthenet.com.au [203.13.68.150]) by alto.onthenet.com.au (Postfix) with ESMTPS id A0C3E210EE4B for ; Tue, 29 Aug 2017 03:44:28 +1000 (AEST) Received: from localhost (iredmail.onthenet.com.au [127.0.0.1]) by iredmail.onthenet.com.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id 949CA281F20 for ; Tue, 29 Aug 2017 03:44:28 +1000 (AEST) X-Amavis-Modified: Mail body modified (using disclaimer) - iredmail.onthenet.com.au Received: from iredmail.onthenet.com.au ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (iredmail.onthenet.com.au [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10026) with ESMTP id 2imEjXbtaSpb for ; Tue, 29 Aug 2017 03:44:28 +1000 (AEST) Received: from Peters-MacBook-Pro-2.local (96-82-80-65-static.hfc.comcastbusiness.net [96.82.80.65]) by iredmail.onthenet.com.au (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id AD8AE28095C; Tue, 29 Aug 2017 03:44:26 +1000 (AEST) Subject: Re: Xeon E5 (PowerEdge 320) bailing out To: Aijaz Baig References: From: Peter Grehan Cc: freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org Message-ID: Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2017 10:44:22 -0700 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.10; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.3.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-CMAE-Score: 0 X-CMAE-Analysis: v=2.2 cv=XKlAcUpE c=1 sm=1 tr=0 a=A6CF0fG5TOl4vs6YHvqXgw==:117 a=mwgbnDbW7alINpy3vhoKyg==:17 a=IkcTkHD0fZMA:10 a=KeKAF7QvOSUA:10 a=djrnGS7jRAPqoPVUVuAA:9 a=QEXdDO2ut3YA:10 wl=host:3 X-BeenThere: freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: "Discussion of various virtualization techniques FreeBSD supports." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2017 17:44:36 -0000 Hi, > Trying to run Bhyve on a PowerEdge 320 system which DOES have a POPCNT > instruction which shows support for VT-x support via EPT but I still get > the this error there > > sh /usr/share/examples/bhyve/vmrun.sh -c 1 -m 2048M -t tap0 -d guest.img -i > -I FreeBSD-10.3-RELEASE-amd64-bootonly.iso fbsd10 > Launching virtual machine "fbsd10" ... > vm_create: Device not configured You may want to check your BIOS to make sure that VT-x is enabled (/var/log/messages may also have a message from the bhyve kernel module about this) > dmesg: > vmx_init: processor does not support VMX operation > > cat /var/run/dmesg.boot | grep -i popcnt > Features2=0xffba2203 SSE4.1,SSE4.2,x2APIC,POPCNT,TSCDLT,AESNI,XSAVE,OSXSAVE,AVX,F16C,RDRAND,HV> > Features2=0xffba2203 SSE4.1,SSE4.2,x2APIC,POPCNT,TSCDLT,AESNI,XSAVE,OSXSAVE,AVX,F16C,RDRAND,HV> > > Isn't this processor supposed to support Bhyve (Xeon E5)?? A quick bit of searching shows the R320 shipped with a Xeon E5-2400 (aka Ivy Bridge) which will run bhyve fine. later, Peter.