Trying to get XEN working on Dell D830 Notebook

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I have a Dell Latitude D830 notebook running openSUSE 11.0 as the only OS. Here are the hardware specs:

Latitude D830, Intel Core 2 Duo T7100, 1.80GHz, 800Mhz 2M L2 Cache, Dual Core
1.0GB, DDR2-667 SDRAM, 1 DIMM
80 GB 7200 RPM HDD
Intel Integrated Graphics Media Accelerator X3100 Latitude D830

openSUSE 11.0 works great on this PC, except for a few minor things, like Pulse Audio. But what I want to do it try out XEN with Windows XP Pro. However I get an error message stating I can not do this because the hardware will not support full virtualization.

I would think the T7100 should be able to do this, but I’m not sure. Has anyone tried this on a PC with simular hardware? Should I look at a different PC to try this?

Thanks!

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On Thu, 24 Jul 2008 14:36:04 GMT
maxpoweron <maxpoweron@no-mx.forums.opensuse.org> wrote:

>
> I have a Dell Latitude D830 notebook running openSUSE 11.0 as the only
> OS. Here are the hardware specs:
>
> Latitude D830, Intel Core 2 Duo T7100, 1.80GHz, 800Mhz 2M L2 Cache,
> Dual Core
> 1.0GB, DDR2-667 SDRAM, 1 DIMM
> 80 GB 7200 RPM HDD
> Intel Integrated Graphics Media Accelerator X3100 Latitude D830
>
> openSUSE 11.0 works great on this PC, except for a few minor things,
> like Pulse Audio. But what I want to do it try out XEN with Windows
> XP Pro. However I get an error message stating I can not do this
> because the hardware will not support full virtualization.
>
> I would think the T7100 should be able to do this, but I’m not sure.
> Has anyone tried this on a PC with simular hardware? Should I look at
> a different PC to try this?
>
> Thanks!
>
>
Hi
If you look at the cpu features, does it support the vt flag?

cat /proc/cpuinfo |grep flag

or

/usr/sbin/hwinfo --cpu |grep Feature

There may also be a setting in the BIOS to enable vt.

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I don’t know. I’ll check it out when I get home. Since I have the same PC at work, I’ll check the BIOS per your suggestion.

Thanks!

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On Thu, 2008-07-24 at 15:26 +0000, maxpoweron wrote:
> I don’t know. I’ll check it out when I get home. Since I have the same
> PC at work, I’ll check the BIOS per your suggestion.

Dell disables the VT stuff by default… so yep… that’s the issue.