Re: [gentoo-amd64] [OT] AMD-V virtualization on Athlon64 X2

Re: [gentoo-amd64] [OT] AMD-V virtualization on Athlon64 X2

[Marco Matthies]

Etaoin Shrdlu schrieb:
> After some searches, it's still unclear to me whether my CPU, an AMD 
> Athlon64 X2 4600+ (socket AM2) supports AMD-V hardware virtualization. 
> Some sites say that only opterons have virtualization support, others 
> say that all AM2 CPUs have virtualization. Even the AMD site is not 
> clear (to me at last).

I believe all AM2 Athlon64's have AMD-V, not exactly sure though. It may 
also be disabled at the BIOS level.

> Is there a way (eg, by looking into /proc/cpuinfo or somewhere else) to 
> find out for sure?

Look for svm in the flags line in /proc/cpuinfo (for Intel VT you would 
look for vmx).
egrep '^flags.*svm' /proc/cpuinfo

Marco
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[gentoo-amd64] [OT] AMD-V virtualization on Athlon64 X2

[Etaoin Shrdlu]

After some searches, it's still unclear to me whether my CPU, an AMD 
Athlon64 X2 4600+ (socket AM2) supports AMD-V hardware virtualization. 
Some sites say that only opterons have virtualization support, others 
say that all AM2 CPUs have virtualization. Even the AMD site is not 
clear (to me at last).
Is there a way (eg, by looking into /proc/cpuinfo or somewhere else) to 
find out for sure?
Sorry if I missed something obvious.

Thanks
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Re: [gentoo-amd64] [OT] AMD-V virtualization on Athlon64 X2

[Etaoin Shrdlu]

On Thursday 16 November 2006 16:54, Marco Matthies wrote:

> > Is there a way (eg, by looking into /proc/cpuinfo or somewhere else)
> > to find out for sure?
>
> Look for svm in the flags line in /proc/cpuinfo (for Intel VT you
> would look for vmx).
> egrep '^flags.*svm' /proc/cpuinfo

That's it, many thanks.
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