Lloyd Kvam wrote:
http://ark.intel.com/Product.aspx?id=42014
claims that the P7550 supports virtualization which I expect to show up
as vmx in the cpuflags.
I bought a new HP laptop which featured a P7550 processor and expected
to be able to use KVM. Unfortunately, the vmx flag is not
I have fairly deep OS-level experience (including some Virtual Machine
work) but I confess that I'm not up on the very latest VM technology
so to further the discussion let me ask something that may also have
occurred to others:
What is it in the nature of VM support in these processors (or
On Sun, 2009-09-27 at 12:43 -0400, Michael ODonnell wrote:
So if VM support is enabled by flipping some bit(s) in some CPU
Control Register(s) I'd assume that a VM-capable OS could flip those
bits as well as any BIOS code. I suppose it's possible that the CPU
might first insist on seeing a
So if VM support is enabled by flipping some bit(s) in some CPU
Control Register(s) I'd assume that a VM-capable OS could flip those
bits as well as any BIOS code. I suppose it's possible that the CPU
might first insist on seeing a certain logic level on a certain input
pin before
On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 7:36 PM, Michael ODonnell
michael.odonn...@comcast.net wrote:
Not certain I understand what you're saying but processors in this family
come out of their power-on Reset state in their simplest, least capable
mode - interrupts disabled, MMU disabled, 20bit Real Mode
On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 7:59 PM, Thomas Charron twaf...@gmail.com wrote:
On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 7:36 PM, Michael ODonnell
michael.odonn...@comcast.net wrote:
Not certain I understand what you're saying but processors in this family
come out of their power-on Reset state in their simplest,
On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 7:59 PM, Thomas Charron twaf...@gmail.com wrote:
Intel's VT-x extensions *MUST* be enabled and supported by BIOS.
I'm not sure why ...
I seem to recall this facet of the design being sold as a security
feature. The scenario given was the entire nominal installed OS
