I just installed Fedora 7 on my AMD Athlon 64 X2 4800+ X86_64 machine.
I'm planning to attempt installing a guest OS tonight -- probably CentOS5.
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Question 1
Currently, I just boot F7 with the xen kernel, running Domain-0 and I go
my merry way logging in as myself and installing software, doing email,
etc. But I wonder if this is accepted practice? Or should I be
installing F7 again a second time as a guest OS and doing user and
development stuff under that?
Here is where I am now virtualization wise:
[root@bobcp4 ~]# xm list
Name ID Mem VCPUs State
Time(s)
Domain-0 0 1880 2 r----- 503.8
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Question 2
My AMD Athlon 64 chip listed above doesn't support full virtualization
e.g. there is no 'svn' in the /proc/cpuinfo flags. I have this chip
installed in an Asrock 939SLI32-eSATA2 motherboard. Can anyone suggest a
new processor I can buy which supports full virtualization? I'd prefer
an AMD processor and I could replace the motherboard. The Asrock board
is rock solid -- I love it -- but I could replace it.
[root@bobcp4 ~]# cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor : 0
vendor_id : AuthenticAMD
cpu family : 15
model : 35
model name : AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4800+
stepping : 2
cpu MHz : 2410.848
cache size : 1024 KB
physical id : 0
siblings : 1
core id : 0
cpu cores : 1
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 1
wp : yes
flags : fpu tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic mtrr mca cmov pat pse36
clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 ht syscall nx mmxext fxsr_opt lm 3dnowext
3dnow pni lahf_lm cmp_legacy
bogomips : 6028.73
TLB size : 1024 4K pages
clflush size : 64
cache_alignment : 64
address sizes : 40 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
power management: ts fid vid ttp
processor : 1
vendor_id : AuthenticAMD
cpu family : 15
model : 35
model name : AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4800+
stepping : 2
cpu MHz : 2410.848
cache size : 1024 KB
physical id : 1
siblings : 1
core id : 0
cpu cores : 1
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 1
wp : yes
flags : fpu tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic mtrr mca cmov pat pse36
clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 ht syscall nx mmxext fxsr_opt lm 3dnowext
3dnow pni lahf_lm cmp_legacy
bogomips : 6028.73
TLB size : 1024 4K pages
clflush size : 64
cache_alignment : 64
address sizes : 40 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
power management: ts fid vid ttp
Thanks
Bob Cochran
