xen environment??

[jwhite]

Hi,

I am installing VirtualBox on an AWS machine instance. The machine is an 8 processor, 15 Gig RAM instance with EBS. The processors chosen have hardware virtualization built in, ie hvm, which is required for 64-bit guest OSs in VirtualBox. However, during configuration of VirtualBox, one of the drivers failed to load and spat out the following error:

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[root@ip-172-31-13-235 proc]# /sbin/vboxconfig
vboxdrv.sh: Stopping VirtualBox services.
vboxdrv.sh: Building VirtualBox kernel modules.
vboxdrv.sh: Starting VirtualBox services.
vboxdrv.sh: failed: Running VirtualBox in a Xen environment is not supported.

There were problems setting up VirtualBox.  To re-start the set-up process, run
  /sbin/vboxconfig
as root.

The Xen kernel was never installed, nor was anything Xen found on the system (see below). I checked the sysconfig/kernel file, /proc/cpuinfo, and package names.
I did find a directory named "/proc/xen" , but it is empty.

Since the xen kernel is not in use, why is VirtualBox refusing to load?

Thanks for any info you can provide.
Cheers,
Joe White
Wuxi NextCODE

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[root@ip-172-31-13-235 proc]# cat /etc/sysconfig/kernel
# UPDATEDEFAULT specifies if new-kernel-pkg should make
# new kernels the default
UPDATEDEFAULT=yes

# DEFAULTKERNEL specifies the default kernel package type
DEFAULTKERNEL=kernel
[root@ip-172-31-13-235 proc]# 

The processors look like this ( last of 8 ):

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processor       : 7
vendor_id       : GenuineIntel
cpu family      : 6
model           : 63
model name      : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2666 v3 @ 2.90GHz
stepping        : 2
microcode       : 0x36
cpu MHz         : 2900.103
cache size      : 25600 KB
physical id     : 0
siblings        : 8
core id         : 3
cpu cores       : 4
apicid          : 7
initial apicid  : 7
fpu             : yes
fpu_exception   : yes
cpuid level     : 13
wp              : yes
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 nx pdpe1gb rdtscp lm constant_tsc rep_good nopl xtopology eagerfpu pni pclmulqdq ssse3 fma cx16 pcid sse4_1 sse4_2 x2apic movbe popcnt tsc_deadline_timer aes xsave avx f16c rdrand hypervisor lahf_lm abm fsgsbase bmi1 avx2 smep bmi2 erms invpcid xsaveopt
bogomips        : 5800.14
clflush size    : 64
cache_alignment : 64
address sizes   : 46 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
power management:

[Perryg]

IIRC an "AWS machine instance" is Xen.