Xeon E5 (PowerEdge 320) bailing out

[Peter Grehan]

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<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)??

  A quick bit of searching shows the R320 shipped with a Xeon E5-2400 
(aka Ivy Bridge) which will run bhyve fine.

later,

Peter.