On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 1:51 PM, Rich Shepard<[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, 12 Aug 2009, Carl Karsten wrote: > >> "To run fully virtualized guests, host CPU support is needed. This is >> typically referred to as Intel VT, or AMD-V. Xen uses a generic 'HVM' >> layer to support both CPU vendors. To check for Intel VT support look for >> the 'vmx' flag, or for AMD-V support check for 'svm' flag: " > >> looks like you are good. > > Carl, > > I know the svm flag is there, but want confirmation its presence means > that the AMD-V support is turned on and not just available. Do the flags > represent active capabilities? >
Yes, but careful... When you load the xen hypervisor, it does not expose it to the guest, so you won't see that flag. I think. (I started getting into this a few months ago when I was getting ready for an EC2 job that didn't pan out. so my terms and such are a bit rusty.) -- Carl K _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
