KVM vs XEN vs VMware

Magnus Runesson mr-ubuntu at linuxalert.org
Thu May 3 16:53:21 UTC 2007


On Thu, 2007-05-03 at 17:34 +0100, Liam Proven wrote: 

> I /think/ - but I am not certain and you must check - that the Core
> Due does not support Intel VT but that the Core 2 Duo *does*. Even if
> the CPU supports it, some vendors disable it in the BIOS.
> 

Only some of  Core 2 Duo CPU:s suport VT.

> You might try looking at the kernel startup messages and see if they
> mention VT support.
> 
> If you don't know how, try
> 
>     dmesg | less
> 
> at a console prompt.
> 

It may be easier to write at a prompt:
egrep '^flags.*(vmx|svm)' /proc/cpuinfo

If you got a line meantion vmx (Intel) or svm (AMD) you have VT support
in your CPU.

Regards,
/Magnus

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