The svm flag shows that your AMD processor supports virtualization and that 
virtualization is turned on the the bios.

The SVM flag does not show up in the flags variable if Virtualization is 
disabled in the bios btw.

On Wednesday 12 August 2009 10:10:16 am Rich Shepard wrote:
>    Is there a way to determine whether hardware virtualization support is
> enabled without rebooting and directly checking the BIOS settings?
>
>    For example, do any of these flags from /proc/cupinfo tell me that
> virtualization is enabled and not just capable of being activated?
>
> flags           : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca
> cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 ht syscall nx mmxext fxsr_opt
> rdtscp lm 3dnowext 3dnow pni cx16 lahf_lm cmp_legacy svm extapic cr8_legacy
> 3dnowprefetch
>
> TIA,
>
> Rich

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