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BootMaster
08-12-2009, 12:01 PM
Hello,

I just want to tell you that I finaly got 64bit VM (virtualbox) running!
I have a MSI K9A2GM board (MSI-A7501) and an AMD AM2 socket CPU. I asked MSI support twice to tell me how to activated AMD-V SVM pacifica in this board. They told me to have an AM2+ or AM3 CPU to have hardware virtualisation. AM2 is not supported but I could have a test BIOS. With this one flashed in my board I can run every VM with 64bit client with no problems. It is compiled in june 2009. AMD-V SVM (secure virtual machine) is running fine :-) Btw my virtualbox clients run much faster with AMD-V enabled.
Now I am able to run XENserver on my PC.

Just if you have some sort of MSI board and want to run hardware virtualisation go and ask MSI support for a special BIOS or buy a AM2+ or AM3 Processor.

Good Luck!!

PS: Win7 XP Mode also needs hardware virtualisation enabled.

ifeife2
08-12-2009, 06:42 PM
That's nice AMD is supporting older products in this way : )