Just the man I was hoping would answer.
We are struggling to get any sane BIOS menu out of this Gigabyte
mobo, seems so basic and so far i've been unable to locate an
advanced menu (nevermind any option with a 'V' in it.)
we are currently running F22 (knowing F23 is out there) but no
real reason to update thus far.
None of the F keys bring up an advanced menu.
- any hints on how to find the sub sub sub menu would be greatly
appreciated and might save me a few years of hair loss.
On 29/11/2018 22:19, Splodger wrote:
Hi folks.
Started to scratch my head a little here although I feel I
remember choosing the parts for a computer for gaming knowing
that VM's were not likely to be used.
Well, all of a sudden somebody needs to learn Linux and so we
first tried installing hyper-v in windows 10 pro however it
seemed that something was missing (virtualisation support in
firmware) and hyper-v would not work.
Moved on to Virtualbox which is software i am more comfortable
with and although i am able to install Debian through the VM
software the VM does not boot. I just get a screen full of
numbers. (call trace : speculative store bypass update, ssb
prctl set, do seccomp, do int80 syscall - blah blah - end
trace )
From the hardware listed below, is anyone able to point out an
incompatibility or some physical reason why I am having issues
with something that has always been so simple and natural to
setup.
Gigabyte AX370M-Gaming 3 AM4 DDR4 mATX Motherboard
AMD Ryzen 5 1500X Quad Core AM4 CPU/Processor with Wraith
Spire 95W cooler
Samsung 250GB 970 Evo M.2 SSD
Seagate BarraCuda Pro 1TB Laptop Hard Drive 2.5" 7mm SATA III
6GB's 7200RPM 128MB Cache
Asus Cerberus GTX 1050 Ti OC Edition 4GB GDDR5 Graphics Card
Corsair Vengeance LPX 16GB (2 X 8GB) Memory Kit Pc4-25600
3200MHz DDR4 DIMM C16 (Red)
Psu Vs450w 80+
That's a nice little setup and is definitely capable of
virtualisation - you just need to turn it on in the UEFI
settings.
Your clue was: "virtualisation support in firmware". This is
disabled by default in the vast majority of consumer systems for
some reason.
Any cursory googling for $your_mobo + virtualization will get
you to the right place, for example:
https://forum.level1techs.com/t/solved-no-virtualization-support-with-gigabyte-ga-ab350-gaming-3/114171
On modern Ryzens it's usually hidden away somewhere in a
sub-sub-sub menu, often called "SVM".
Without this turned on elementary non-accelerated 32bit guest
virtualization _might_ work sometimes but will be horrid.
Hyper-V categorically will not work in any way without the UEFI
support enabled though and neither will 64bit Virtualbox/VMWare
guests.
Make sense?
Also definitely not [OT].
Cheers