On su, 2008-02-03 at 23:48 +0000, (=?utf-8?q?=60=60-=5F-=C2=B4=C2=B4?=) -- Fernando wrote: > egrep ‘(vmx|svm)’ /proc/cpuinfo Someone, somewhere, has replaced the correct ASCII single quotes (code point 39, hexadecimla 0x27) with something else. Replace the quotes with ASCII single or double quotes and it will work.