[SOLVED] Issue starting VM with default processor Type

Astraea

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I have 7 nodes in my cluster and 6 of them are running older Intel CPUs, with each node having 2 sockets. The problem is the 1 node that I have that is running an AMD CPU. This node will not start a VM unless the processor type is set to max or to host. These of course can cause issues if the VM migrates as part of HA. I was able to a VM to start using kvm32 but I know the node has 64bit CPUs, they are listed on the Proxmox WebUI as Quad-Core AMD Opteron Processor 2356. I have the latest packages and I have hardware virtualization turned on in the BIOS. I also noticed that if I turn off hardware virtualization in the VM settings it will boot with the default processor type.
 
what is the error if you try to start with kvm64 ? it should say something in the start task log
 
kvm: warning: host doesn't support requested feature: CPUID.80000001H:EDX.nx [bit 20]
kvm: Host doesn't support requested features
 
Just updated to the latest version of Proxmox VE and still getting this error:

Code:
kvm: warning: host doesn't support requested feature: CPUID.80000001H:EDX.nx [bit 20]
kvm: Host doesn't support requested features
TASK ERROR: start failed: QEMU exited with code 1

Here is the VM configuration, it is a very basic VM with just enough to see if it will start on the node:

Code:
boot: 
cores: 1
memory: 2048
meta: creation-qemu=6.1.0,ctime=1643169486
name: TEST
numa: 0
ostype: l26
scsihw: virtio-scsi-pci
smbios1: uuid=60a2a626-9c2c-484a-b01e-6d897345bd62
sockets: 1
vmgenid: bba6fcef-6bae-43b0-9253-b9e4a7cc0598
 
You were correct somehow that flag got switched to disabled and once it rebooted with it enabled the test VM fired up no problem.
 

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