Old opteron 939

[mgiammarco]

Hello,
I have an opteron 939 based system with 16gb ecc ram. This system can do a lot of things but it has no VT extensions.
I know that KVM needs them but I know also that KVM has a "fall back" mode where it calls QEMU that does not need virtualization extensions.

Can you support qemu in proxmox ve?

Thanks,
Mario

 

[Peter712]

Hello,
I have an opteron 939 based system with 16gb ecc ram. This system can do a lot of things but it has no VT extensions.
I know that KVM needs them but I know also that KVM has a "fall back" mode where it calls QEMU that does not need virtualization extensions.

Can you support qemu in proxmox ve?

Thanks,
Mario

I have been using 2 systems both running dual opteron 248 (940) @2.0Ghz 8GB ECC ram 200GB hdd. for a wile.(pve 1.4 I think)
and the answer is Yes and NO. and only is known to work for PVE 1.x

YES: you can manually create VM's using the command line. once created it can be controlled via that webUI... with a few hiccups like not being able to reboot, only start and stop. and one or two others that I cant remember. I have installed and tested a lot of distros and sometimes converted to openvz.

NO: without having KVM support its going to tank your system... running one windows VM by itself no other VM's/CT's it feels like its running on a 500Mhz box, and windows (or any other OS) will have issues with lag.

to sum-up, its not practical to use for production, but nice for testing.

here's my old thread http://forum.proxmox.com/threads/2421-Qemu-without-KVM