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From: Marco Matthies <marco-ml@×××.net>
To: gentoo-amd64@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] [OT] AMD-V virtualization on Athlon64 X2
Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2006 15:56:00
Message-Id: 455C899D.7040203@gmx.net
In Reply to: [gentoo-amd64] [OT] AMD-V virtualization on Athlon64 X2 by Etaoin Shrdlu
1 Etaoin Shrdlu schrieb:
2 > After some searches, it's still unclear to me whether my CPU, an AMD
3 > Athlon64 X2 4600+ (socket AM2) supports AMD-V hardware virtualization.
4 > Some sites say that only opterons have virtualization support, others
5 > say that all AM2 CPUs have virtualization. Even the AMD site is not
6 > clear (to me at last).
7
8 I believe all AM2 Athlon64's have AMD-V, not exactly sure though. It may
9 also be disabled at the BIOS level.
10
11 > Is there a way (eg, by looking into /proc/cpuinfo or somewhere else) to
12 > find out for sure?
13
14 Look for svm in the flags line in /proc/cpuinfo (for Intel VT you would
15 look for vmx).
16 egrep '^flags.*svm' /proc/cpuinfo
17
18 Marco
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Re: [gentoo-amd64] [OT] AMD-V virtualization on Athlon64 X2 Etaoin Shrdlu <shrdlu@×××××××××××××.org>