[ovirt-users] Unsupported CPU for Windows 10 64-bit Guest

[Alexander Wels]

On Wednesday, April 27, 2016 02:25:32 PM Jared Bloomer wrote:
> I tried setting it to thank, and haswell, and sandy bridge. Everytime I try
> to deploy a VM it says the host does not have the cpu required by the
> cluster and reports the host as non-operational
> 
> Thanks,
> Jared Bloomer
> 

Strange, can you post the output of the following two commands on the HOST?

vdsClient -s 0 getVdsCaps | grep -i flags

virsh -r capabilities

That should tells us what libvirt thinks the capabilities of the machine are.

> On Apr 27, 2016, at 2:22 PM, Alexander Wels <awels at redhat.com> wrote:
> > On Wednesday, April 27, 2016 09:57:17 AM Jared Bloomer wrote:
> >> I have a new install of ovirt up and running. It is a pretty beefy
> >> machine
> >> so I would really like to figure this out so I can start actually using
> >> it.
> >> 
> >> The Host machine is equipped with 2 Intel Xeon E5-2603 v3 CPUs.
> >> 
> >> Ovirt shows the following for the hardware
> >> 
> >> CPU Model:
> >> Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2603 v3 @ 1.60GHz
> >> 
> >> 
> >> CPU Type:
> >> Intel Nehalem Family
> > 
> > IIRC this simply reports what cpu type the cluster is set to that the host
> > is in. Looked up the Xeons you mention, and as far as I can tell that is
> > a haswell no-TSX cpu. Simply select the cluster this host is in and
> > switch the cpu type to haswell no-TSX. You should be able to deploy your
> > VM then.> 
> >> However when trying to deploy a VM with the Operating System set as
> >> Windows
> >> 10 x64 I get the error message
> >> 
> >> The guest OS doesn't support the following CPUs: opteron_g1, conroe,
> >> nehalem, penryn. Its possible to change the cluster cpu or set a
> >> different
> >> one per VM
> >> 
> >> How can I go about deploying a Windows 10 Guest on this Host?
> >> 
> >> 
> >> Thanks,
> >> Jared Bloomer