Re: A question about the future of qemu package

[Roberto Ragusa]

Tom Horsley wrote:
>  A system at work said I did have the vmx flag (actually there is a
> different
>  flag for AMD chips as well), but I still couldn't use kvm. Finally discovered
>  strange BIOS setting that would only take effect after a power cycle. So
>  not only do you need the chip support, you need a BIOS that allows you to
>  enable it (and the cpuinfo test won't check for that). I have heard
>  horror stories of BIOS version which refuse to offer the ability to enable
>  the feature (but never personally seen one), so merely checking vmx may
>  not be enough. 
In fact the the kvm-intel module actually prints in the system
log something like "Virtualization support unavailable, disabled
by BIOS".
I don't know if the same applies to the AMD equivalent.

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