-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 17/05/2012 21:34, Ryan Schmidt wrote: > > On May 17, 2012, at 15:27, Jeremy Lavergne wrote: > >>> That's kind of what I was trying to say (very badly as it turned out). >>> >>> I can't find the OS X equivalent of: >>> >>> `egrep '(vm|svm)' --color=always /proc/cpuinfo` >>> >>> which although it is strictly speaking the way of finding out if your >>> box is capable of hardware virtualization, is also useful as a sure fire >>> way of knowing if your kernel is 64-bit. >> >> Is sysctl viable for that? >> hw.optional.x86_64: 1 > > I was not aware of that sysctl variable but it appears to be accurate, though > only for Intel machines of course. The one MacPorts base itself uses (to > determine the default build_arch) is hw.cpu64bit_capable which should work on > PowerPC machines as well. Note that this works on Leopard and up only. > > > For your amusement, here are a few values from a few different systems I have > access to: > > > MacBookPro3,1, a 64-bit machine with the 32-bit kernel: > > $ uname -p > i386 > $ uname -m > i386 > $ sysctl hw.cpu64bit_capable > hw.cpu64bit_capable: 1 > $ sysctl hw.optional.x86_64 > hw.optional.x86_64: 1 > $
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I get exactly the same on a MacBookPro4,1
Cheers,
Phil...
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