Supermicro – How to Enable Virtualization in BIOS for Supermicro

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my motherboard is a Supermicro x9dri-ln4f+, and I am using dual xeon e5 2690 CPUs.

I have been trying to enable Virtualization in order to load VMs in qemu and virtualbox.

The motherboard claims to support VT-x,VT-d, and VT-c in the specs page, and the in the bios under cpu information, it states that all three of those are supported for the CPUs.

This issue is extremely similar to enabling virtualization on supermicro board
but their solution of enabling NX(XF for me) did not fix anything, because it was already enabled.

Things I have done:

  • Enabled “
  • Enabled Intel VT-d in North Bridge->Integrated IO Configuration
  • Enabled DCA in North Bridge->Integrated IO Configuration
  • Enabled Isoc in North Bridge->QPI Configuration
  • Enabled Execute-Disable Bit Capability(Solution to other person's issue)
  • Enabled Intel Virtualization Technology in Advanced settings
  • Tried combinations of enabled Prefetcher settings in advanced such as MLC Streamer, MLC Spatial, DCU Streamer, DCU IP
  • Tried settings bios to default settings and repeating above settings.
  • Full boot and power cycle(completely off) after changing bios settings.

Additionally, from https://www.thomas-krenn.com/en/wiki/Activating_the_Intel_VT_Virtualization_Feature
doing: 

modprobe msr
rdmsr 0x3a

returns 0

Also running dmesg

$ dmesg | grep kvm
[    14.444265] kvm: disabled by bios
[    16.225445] kvm: disabled by bios

And in windows under cpu info in task manager it says that virtualization is disabled.

Any help is appreciated, as I have been racking my head for hours trying to get this to work.

Best Answer

[SOLVED] I fixed the issue by reinstalling the bios using IPMI instead of using a USB drive like before(Same Bios version). Then enabled ISOC in the north bridge settings. @MichaelHampton Thank you for your help

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