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[Phil Dobbin]

On 04/19/2013 09:15 PM, moshe nahmias wrote:

> According to what intel says my processor does support virtualization
> (model Q9400). Wasn't able to update the bios yet, can't make a bootable
> cd with the files needed, and on capabilities from lshw says among other
> things vmx (at least on other places on this thread people said that
> means virtualization).
> 
> about cat /proc/cpuinfo |grep -E "flags|model name", here is the output:
> 
> [moshe at moshe-desktop ~]$ cat /proc/cpuinfo |grep -E "flags|model name"
> model name    : Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU    Q9400  @ 2.66GHz
> flags        : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca
> cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe syscall
> nx lm constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts rep_good nopl aperfmperf pni
> dtes64 monitor ds_cpl vmx smx est tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr pdcm sse4_1 xsave
> lahf_lm dtherm tpr_shadow vnmi flexpriority
> model name    : Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU    Q9400  @ 2.66GHz
> flags        : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca
> cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe syscall
> nx lm constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts rep_good nopl aperfmperf pni
> dtes64 monitor ds_cpl vmx smx est tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr pdcm sse4_1 xsave
> lahf_lm dtherm tpr_shadow vnmi flexpriority
> model name    : Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU    Q9400  @ 2.66GHz
> flags        : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca
> cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe syscall
> nx lm constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts rep_good nopl aperfmperf pni
> dtes64 monitor ds_cpl vmx smx est tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr pdcm sse4_1 xsave
> lahf_lm dtherm tpr_shadow vnmi flexpriority
> model name    : Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU    Q9400  @ 2.66GHz
> flags        : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca
> cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe syscall
> nx lm constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts rep_good nopl aperfmperf pni
> dtes64 monitor ds_cpl vmx smx est tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr pdcm sse4_1 xsave
> lahf_lm dtherm tpr_shadow vnmi flexpriority
> 
> 

Yep, the 'vmx' flag shows the cpu is capable of virtualization. Check
the BIOS next. There should be an option to enable VT-x although on some
models, even if they're capable of it, it's impossible to enable (for
reasons best known to the vendors).

Cheers,

  Phil...

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