So, we are configuring some openstack and kvm stuff at work for some projects. We’re ‘cloudy’ guys. What can I say? \ud83d\ude00 One Issue I had when installing xenserver, underneath KVM. <\/p>\n
(why would we do this?) In our testing environment we’re using a single OnMetal v2 server, and, instead of running xenserver directly on the server, and requiring additional servers, we are using a single 128GB RAM hypervisor for the test environment. One issue though is that Windows is only supported with xenserver when directly run on the ‘host’. Because Xen is running virtualized under KVM we have a problem.<\/p>\n
Enter, tested virtualization support. Hardware virtualization assist support will now work for xenserver thru KVM, which means I can boot windows servers. YAY! uh.. \ud83d\ude09 kinda. <\/p>\n
\r\n$cat \/sys\/module\/kvm_intel\/parameters\/nested\r\nN\r\n<\/pre>\nIt wasn’t \ud83d\ude41 Lets enable it<\/p>\n
Enable nested hardware virtualization assist <\/h1>\n
\r\nsudo rmmod kvm-intel\r\nsudo sh -c \"echo 'options kvm-intel nested=y' >> \/etc\/modprobe.d\/dist.conf\"\r\nsudo modprobe kvm-intel\r\n<\/pre>\nEnsure nested hardware virtualization is enabled <\/h1>\n
\r\ncat \/sys\/module\/kvm_intel\/parameters\/nested\r\nY\r\n\r\nmodinfo kvm_intel | grep nested\r\nparm: nested:bool\r\n<\/pre>\nIt worked!<\/p>\n
This can also be done for AMD systems simply substituting kvm_amd.<\/p>\n
http:\/\/docs.openstack.org\/developer\/devstack\/guides\/devstack-with-nested-kvm.html<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
So, we are configuring some openstack and kvm stuff at work for some projects. We’re ‘cloudy’ guys. What can I say? \ud83d\ude00 One Issue I had when installing xenserver, underneath KVM. (why would we do this?) In our testing environment … Continue reading