Comment 34 for bug 1201092

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In , George (george-redhat-bugs) wrote :

Description of problem:
Despite exposed flags and SVM enabled in the BIOS - module won't load. Works flawlessly in Virtualbox.

vendor_id : AuthenticAMD
cpu family : 20
model : 2
model name : AMD E-350D APU with Radeon(tm) HD Graphics
stepping : 0
microcode : 0x500010d

Flags: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 ht syscall mmxext fxsr_opt pdpe1gb rdtscp lm constant_tsc rep_good nopl nonstop_tsc extd_apicid aperfmperf pni monitor ssse3 cx16 popcnt lahf_lm cmp_legacy svm extapic cr8_legacy abm sse4a misalignsse 3dnowprefetch ibs skinit wdt arat hw_pstate npt lbrv svm_lock nrip_save pausefilter

Hardware: AMD APU E350, M/B Gigabyte E350N Win8, F3 BIOS

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
Kernels 3.6.10-4.fc18.x86_64 (release), 3.9.6-200.fc18.x86_64 (latest)

How reproducible:
For my HW - always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Enable SVM in BIOS
2. Install Fedora 18
3. modprobe kvm_amd

Actual results:
[root@localhost ~]# modprobe kvm_amd
modprobe: ERROR: could not insert 'kvm_amd': Operation not supported
[root@localhost ~]# dmesg|tail -n1
[ 1611.001914] kvm: disabled by bios

Additional info:
AMD-V available in Virtualbox