Sunday, January 11, 2015

Enabling Virtualization option in Lenovo G50

Enabling Virtualization option in BIOS 
1. I bought Lenovo G50 AMD A8 / 8GB RAM / 1TB HDD and my plan is to install some Hypervisor virtually using VMWare workstation and run some VM in that, but I was not able to see the option in BIOS to enable Virtualization
3.You can enable  Virtualization option by updating BIOS using this link.
4.After installing this BIOS update you can see option to enable Virtualization option.
Installing VMWare vSphere client in Windows 8.1
Next issue I was facing is installing vSphere Client in Windows 8.1. It keeps crashing.
The installation of file,VMware-viclient.exe, keeps crashing during installation on Windows 8.1.  This was caused by not having the .NET Framework x3.5 installed.
The cause of issue is that the .NET framework v3.5 is not installed in Windows 8 by default, and is a required component for the vSphere client.  I assume that the redistributable is packaged with the vSphere client installer, but it doesn’t work in Windows 8.1.
“The .NET Framework v3.5 is easy to install, just issue the following command from an elevated/administrator command prompt:
Dism /online /enable-feature /featurename:NetFx3 /All /Source:F:\sources\sxs /LimitAccess
(replace F:\ with the DVD drive where your Windows 8.1 is located.  If your DVD drive is as slow as mine, just copy the ISO to your hard drive, mount it with daemon-tools, and use that location instead.)
After that, the vSphere client happily installed and I’m off to play with Windows 8.1 now.”
Issue in Installing VM in ESXi server
After Installing vSphere client I was able to connect to ESXi Server which was installed in VMWare workstation 10, but I was not able to install VM in that.
When I created VM and started it gives the error "VMware ESX unrecoverable error: (vcpu-0) vcpu-0:NOT_IMPLEMENTED vmcore/vmm/cpu/fpu.c:452"
To solve this issue you need to add the following line in /etc/vmware/config in ESXi Server

featMask.mockup.cpuid.NUMLEVELS = Val:0xb
featMask.mockup.cpuid.AVX = Val:0
featMask.mockup.cpuid.XSAVE = Val:0

Note: This option disable AVX (Advanced Vector Extensions)

Reference :
https://communities.vmware.com/thread/476180?start=0&tstart=0
http://www.brianwilliams.pro/installing-vsphere-client-on-windows-8-1/

5 comments:

Unknown said...

Hi, Thanks for the info, I just updated my G50-45 bios to the latest available but still see no mention of Visualization in the bios; any help would be appreciated.

Thanks again..

Aravindan J.P said...

Hi NirBhao Khalsa ,Sorry I saw this message very late. Did you manage to get the option ? if not please let me know . I will check .

Unknown said...

evn i tried the same....but cudnt get the virtualization option....want it run android devices via android studio on my lenovo g50-45.....please help

Aravindan J.P said...

Sorry to that even after installing BIOS this option is not available. Check if you can raise ticket with Lenovo and get it fixed.

Unknown said...

Thanks a lot man, this just solved my problems :)
Hi Tabrez khatri the name of cpu virtualization is SVM support you can find that and enable it on configuration BIOS tag. Cheers