AMD/Gigabyte: Enable hardware acceleration for virtualisation in the BIOS

In the Gigabyte BIOS you need to activate a series of settings on different sections in order for KVM to be able to use hardware acceleration.

• M.I.T. -> Advanced Frequency Settings -> Advanced CPU Core Settings -> SVM Mode set to Enable

• Chipset -> IOMMU set to Enabled

Save settings and reboot.

Run the KVM check to see if the system is capable or running hardware accelerated virtualisation.

kvm-ok
virt-host-validate

If you still fail the check review your BIOS/motherboard documentation to activate the correct setting.

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