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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