there were no servers available to start VM, HVM is required

[manny manny]

Hi all,

 

i'm new to this for the forum, i'm a vmware admin, currently trying to implement xen in my environment.

i installed xen server 6 on old IBM e server 325. installtion is successful, but when i tried to create a vm via xen center, it failed and giving an error.

 

" there were no servers available to start VM " centos"

 

HVM is required for this operation.

 

since my server is little old, there is no virtualization settings in the bios, but vmware esx was working on that. That is the reason i have hope and confused too.. why xen is not working.

 

One more work around is , i even tried xen server installed on virtual box in my laptopn. which is i5 processor, with virtualization enabled. sitll i'm getting same error there too...

 

please help me how to get rid of the error, if my server is old, it should work on my latest laptop isn't it ?

 

Thanks in advance.

[Tobias Kreidl]

Are you out of resorces on your XenServer(s) to be able to accommodate one additional VM? What does it say on the error panel ? Can you start up any other VMs as a test?

[Alan Lantz]

http://hcl.xensource.org

 

Just because a server/pc is new or that it has ran VMware is not a reason to think it would support XenServer. I see that the eServer 326M is verified to work up to version 5.5 but not anything newer and that it will only support running Linux VM's. With the latest firmwares you may be able to get it to run Linux VM's but I doubt it will support Windows VM's. With XenServer is best to purchase hardware with XenServer in mind that way you don't run into compatibility issues.

 

Alan Lantz

SysAdmin

City of Rogers, AR

[James Cannon]

If HVM is required, you need to enable CPU virtualization. Running the following command will show if CPU virtualization is enabled:

 

[root@xenserver-jamesc ~]# cat /proc/cpuinfo

...

flags: fpu de tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr mca cmov pat clflush acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht nx constant_tsc aperfmperf pni vmx est ssse3 hypervisor tpr_shadow

...

 

You should see "vmx" flag in the flags section.

 

If you created VM and did not use the Linux template, it will be in HVM (hardware virtualization mode). You really wan to use the correct template, so that a xen kernel is used in VM and then it is PVM (paravirtualization mode). If using xen kernel for Linux guest, you don't need CPU virtualization option. CPU virtualization is only required for HVM, like Windows. 

[Jean Vinicius Firmino Pereira]

Good day, my friends

 

I'm trying to build a virtual lab to study...I've installed two XenServers on a Hyper-V running on my Win8.1...created a pool using both of xenservers, but I can't start a created vm...

 

I ran the command above "cat /proc/cpuinfo" and I see no "vmx" flag...

 

This occurs due I'm trying create a VM inside another VM?

[Imran pasha]

Check your storage repository is reachable. Re-create your storage repository.

[Alan Lantz]

Have you ran VM's on this hardware before okay? Is this local or shared storage? If shared does

a VM work okay with local storage ?

 

--Alan--