I attempted this, and the answer is NO, at least not with VirtualBox 4. We can install OVS and OVMM, but once we start a machine, it appears the required instructionset is not available in VirtualBox.
Message: OVMAPI_5001E Job: 1440092598809/QueuedVmStartDbImpl_1440092598808/Start/resume vm: test.0, on server: server2, failed. Job Failure Event: 1440092601373/Server Async Command Failed/OVMEVT_00C014D_001 Async command failed on server: server2. Object: test.0, PID: 11304, Server error: Command: ['xm', 'create', '/OVS/Repositories/0004fb000003000067b3b661e335f73e/VirtualMachines/0004fb0000060000562f999dab3e822f/vm.cfg'] failed (1): stderr: Error: HVM guest support is unavailable: is VT/AMD-V supported by your CPU and enabled in your BIOS? stdout: Using config file "/OVS/Repositories/0004fb000003000067b3b661e335f73e/VirtualMachines/0004fb0000060000562f999dab3e822f/vm.cfg". , on server: server2, associated with object: 0004fb0000060000562f999dab3e822f [Thu Aug 20 13:43:21 EDT 2015]Even though hardware virtualization is available to the server:
vboxmanage list hostinfo Host Information: Host time: 2015-08-20T18:00:16.855000000Z Processor online count: 4 Processor count: 4 Processor online core count: 4 Processor core count: 2 Processor#0 speed: 3100 MHz Processor#0 description: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-5557U CPU @ 3.10GHz Processor#1 speed: 3100 MHz Processor#1 description: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-5557U CPU @ 3.10GHz Processor#2 speed: 3100 MHz Processor#2 description: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-5557U CPU @ 3.10GHz Processor#3 speed: 3100 MHz Processor#3 description: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-5557U CPU @ 3.10GHz Memory size: 16384 MByte Memory available: 5434 MByte Operating system: Darwin Operating system version: 14.5.0 vboxmanage showvminfo "OVM333s1" Name: OVM333s1 ... Hardw. virt.ext: on Nested Paging: on Large Pages: on VT-x VPID: on VT-x unr. exec.: on ...
still true on March 2019 with Virtualbox 6.
ReplyDeleteLatest OVM 3.4.6 has disabled PVM guest.
SO it is impossible to boot a Centos 7 VM inside OVM when it runs inside Virtualbox