Xeon E5 (PowerEdge 320) bailing out

[Aijaz Baig]

Yes that was it. Thanks for the tip Peter

On Mon, Aug 28, 2017 at 11:14 PM, Peter Grehan <grehan at freebsd.org> wrote:

> 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.
>
>


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Best Regards,
Aijaz Baig