My X570 board SVM is not enabled even tho is shows enabled in the Bios.

[Klee]

I wanted to try a quick Windows 10 VM on my X570, 3700x and Pci-e 4.0 MP600 1TB drive to see how the performance is but........

I checked that yes secure vm shows enabled in the bios.

Shows enabled with no option to change it so I thought I was good to go.

Installed Virtual box but it only gave me the option to install 32 bit o.s.'s.

So I ran the KVM cpu-checker in a terminal and it showed the cpu was capable but svm was disabled in the bios.

I rebooted and went back into the bios and in the main bios screen it does show "Secure Virtual Machine: YES"

Something funky is going on.

Next I started to poke around in the bios and went ahead into the overclocking features and under the cpu features tab SVM was disabled.

I enabled it then saved and rebooted and ran KVM cpu-checker again and now all is good.

"@RyzenLinux:~$ sudo kvm-ok
INFO: /dev/kvm exists
KVM acceleration can be used"

That was a really odd issue.

So now going ahead with the install.

 

[Klee]

Much better.

 

[Klee]

Holy crap that was fast, from first boot from the install iso to the initial welcome screen was less than five minutes....


From a boot to the login screen is 8 seconds.

Windows 10 in Virtualbox is VERY responsive on this pc!

 

[ari2asem]

you have pci-e v4 nvme, with 3700x...that is very fast hardware...i am jealous

 

[Klee]

Installed Haiku os in Virtualbox, runs amazingly well.

Runs much better than on my Proxmox box.

Gave it four cores, 4 gigs of ram and 55 gig hard drive size.

 

[Klee]

Sound sounds great!

 

[Klee]

Looks like I will need to install KVM, I tried Virtual box just to see how a VM runs on this pc and Virtualbox is just easier to install and configure than KVM.