Thanks again for all your responses.

So far

Using #> egrep '(vmx|svm|vme)' --color=always /proc/cpuinfo
I have vme and vmx as you can see below:

 
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flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic mtrr pge mca cmov pat
pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe lm constant_tsc
arch_perfmon pebs bts aperfmperf pni dtes64 monitor ds_cpl vmx est tm2
ssse3 cx16 xtpr pdcm lahf_lm tpr_shadow
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Using an intel processor ID tool I found out that my processor can
handle virtualization. The related output is below:
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Intel(R) Processor Identification Utility 
Processor Name: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU T5600 @ 1.83GHz
...
Intel(R) Virtualization Technology: Yes
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However, when I do #> modprobe kvm-intel
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FATAL: Error inserting kvm_intel
(/lib/modules/2.6.32.11-99.fc12.i686/kernel/arch/x86/kvm/kvm-intel.ko):
Operation not permitted
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When researching this error. Much of the information points to using the
bios settings to enable virtualization, and indicates that if you don't
have the bios setting available (I don't) then its not possible to do
this.

I have also updated my bios, as it was quite old, but there is still no
settings relating to virtualization in the updated version. 

Paul



-----Original Message-----
From: Ameya Palande [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Thu 5/6/2010 10:28
To: ext Sylvia Liu
Cc: Paul Leeming; [email protected]
Subject: Re: [MeeGo-dev] Image Creation Troubles
 
On Thu, 2010-05-06 at 07:46 +0200, ext Sylvia Liu wrote:
> Hi Paul,
> 2. My CPU only supports "vme", not "vmx". (see from /proc/cpuinfo)
> So I cannot add kvm-intel module. But I still added the kvm module
> successfully, and try the qemu-kvm command. Of course I got the same
> warnings:
> > open /dev/kvm: No such file or directory
> > Could not initialize KVM, will disable KVM support
> But I can still start the image successfully, the only problem is that
> it is really slow.

You can check if your cpu support virtualization by checking existence
of "vmx (for intel) or svm (for amd)" flags in /proc/cpuinfo.

To enable kvm functionality you need 2 modules:
1. kvm
2. kvm-intel or kvm-amd

Cheers,
Ameya.


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