Showing posts with label KVM. Show all posts
Showing posts with label KVM. Show all posts

Saturday, 21 February 2009

Virtualbox and KVM

At the moment I'm using virtualbox on my Ubuntu 8.10 laptop for running windows (very occasionally) and some SLC test machines for work. Oh and a few other Linux Distros too. Anyway, much as I like the point n clickiness of virtualbox I thought I'd see what the 'built in' KVM could do, esp as libvirt looks like a nice abstraction layer.

However on starting virtualbox machines I get the error:

VirtualBox can't operate in VMX root mode. Please disable the KVM kernel extension, recompile your kernel and reboot (VERR_VMX_IN_VMX_ROOT_MODE).

well, thats not strictly necessary - a simple sudo rmmod kvm_intel kvm and relaunching the virtualbox guest.

Ressurection of a WirelessThings OpenPi (from kickstarter)

Many years ago, I was handed one of the openpi kickstarter devices (see https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/wirelessthings/openpi-wireless-...