Xeon E5 (PowerEdge 320) bailing out

[Pete Wright]

On 08/28/2017 00:53, Aijaz Baig wrote:
> 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
>
> dmesg:
> vmx_init: processor does not support VMX operation
>
> cat /var/run/dmesg.boot | grep -i popcnt
>    Features2=0xffba2203<SSE3,PCLMULQDQ,SSSE3,CX16,PCID,
> SSE4.1,SSE4.2,x2APIC,POPCNT,TSCDLT,AESNI,XSAVE,OSXSAVE,AVX,F16C,RDRAND,HV>
>    Features2=0xffba2203<SSE3,PCLMULQDQ,SSSE3,CX16,PCID,
> SSE4.1,SSE4.2,x2APIC,POPCNT,TSCDLT,AESNI,XSAVE,OSXSAVE,AVX,F16C,RDRAND,HV>
>
> Isn't this processor supposed to support Bhyve (Xeon E5)??
>

what product number is your E5?  According to the manual you need the 
following for Intel CPUs to run bhyve:

" The easiest way to tell if a processor supports bhyveis to run 
|dmesg|or look in |/var/run/dmesg.boot|for...|EPT|and |UG|on the 
|VT-x|line for Intel® processors."  (I snipped the reference to POPCNT 
which seems to be an AMD only requirement."

its possible that your E5 is old enough that it lacks the VT-x support 
that bhyve needs.

-pete

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Pete Wright
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