From: Marco Matthies <marco-ml@gmx.net>
To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] [OT] AMD-V virtualization on Athlon64 X2
Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2006 16:54:05 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <455C899D.7040203@gmx.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200611161657.04512.shrdlu@unlimitedmail.org>
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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2006-11-16 15:57 [gentoo-amd64] [OT] AMD-V virtualization on Athlon64 X2 Etaoin Shrdlu
2006-11-16 15:54 ` Marco Matthies [this message]
2006-11-16 16:34 ` Etaoin Shrdlu
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