VM Creation Failure on BM Hosts: "Server Does Not Have Supported Environment for Guest Creation"

Applies To:

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure - Version N/A and later

Linux x86-64

Symptoms

When running the following command ‘oci-kvm create --domain ‘ to create a VM within a bare-metal host, it fails with the following error:

iommu_check failed  
Server does not have supported environment for guest creation

Cause

When oci-kvm create is executed, the source code performs several checks to verify that the environment meets the requirements to create a VM. One of these checks is iommu_check(), which verifies if IOMMU (input-output memory management unit) is enabled. The iommu_check() function uses the output of dmesg to check for the string "