From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Gkjap-0003U7-FF for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 16 Nov 2006 15:56:00 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with SMTP id kAGFs7Cv021911; Thu, 16 Nov 2006 15:54:07 GMT Received: from mail.gmx.net (mail.gmx.de [213.165.64.20]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with SMTP id kAGFs6FB016371 for ; Thu, 16 Nov 2006 15:54:06 GMT Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 16 Nov 2006 15:54:05 -0000 Received: from d073096.adsl.hansenet.de (EHLO [192.168.2.189]) [80.171.73.96] by mail.gmx.net (mp035) with SMTP; 16 Nov 2006 16:54:05 +0100 X-Authenticated: #25576946 Message-ID: <455C899D.7040203@gmx.net> Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2006 16:54:05 +0100 From: Marco Matthies User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.8 (X11/20061112) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] [OT] AMD-V virtualization on Athlon64 X2 References: <200611161657.04512.shrdlu@unlimitedmail.org> In-Reply-To: <200611161657.04512.shrdlu@unlimitedmail.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 X-Archives-Salt: 46192e64-c42e-4dc7-82ff-681b9e6a8bd5 X-Archives-Hash: cd69c9d347efdd9be0597beabcb57416 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 -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list