Intel Xeon W3520 and hvm support

[idata]

I have Dell T3500 workstations. I'm running centos 5.5 (xen kernel) on a box. I have one pvm machine running already. I need to import another virtual machine that was created using hvm support.

The T3500 has an Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU W3520 @ 2.67GHz chip. However, when I check this chip to see if it can support hardware virtualization, it appears it can't:

[rootXen]# cat /proc/cpuinfo |grep vmx

[rootXen]# cat /proc/cpuinfo |grep svm[rootXen]#

Can this chip be updated to enable hvm?

thanks

[idata]

It appears the WS3520 chip does support hardware virtualization.

http://www.parallels.com/products/novt

The following tables list Intel and AMD CPUs that support hardware virtualization:

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Intel® Xeon® Processor

E5405 / E5410 / E5420 / E5430 / E5440 / E5450 / E5462 / E5472 / L5408 / L5410 / L5420 / L5430 / X5450 / X5460 / X5470 / X5472 / X5482 / X5492E5502 / E5504 / E5506 / E5520 / E5530 / E5540 / L5506 / L5508 / L5518 / L5520 / L5530 / W5580 / X5550 / X5560 / X5570E7210 / E7220E7310 / E7320 / E7330 / E7340 / L7345 / X7350E7420 / E7430 / E7440 / E7450 / L7445 / L7455 / X7460L3360 / X3320 / X3330 / X3350 / X3360 / X3370 / X3380W3520 / W3540 / W3550 / W3570 / W3580X3210 / X3220 / X3230

So....... I've been in the bios and I've turnd on virtualization but still hvm appears not to work.

[idata]

The following is the solution to this issue. Although xen was installed on the initial system when the host system was being built, apparently some

necessary items/packages were omitted.

After doing the following on the host system:

572 yum install libvir*

573 yum groupinstall xen

I rebooted the system and checked the cpu info again.

[root@atoz ~]# cat /proc/cpuinfo |grep svm

[root@atoz ~]# cat /proc/cpuinfo |grep vmxflags : fpu tsc msr pae cx8 apic mtrr cmov pat clflush acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht nx constant_tsc ida nonstop_tsc pni vmx est ssse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 popcnt [8]

It seems hardware virtualization (vmx) is now available.