On Thu, Jan 25, 2007 at 10:16:51AM -0500, Scott Dodson wrote: > On Thu, 2007-01-25 at 14:25 +0000, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > > Currently virt-install / virt-manager look for two things when determining > > if a machine supports full-virtualization: > > > > a) The word 'hvm' in /sys/hypervisor/properties/capabilities > > b) The flag 'vmx' or 'svm' in /proc/cpuinfo > > Should these cpu flags show up on systems running older kernels such as > a RHEL4, 3, or 2.1 kernel? The CPU flags might, if you had new enough CPUs & kernel, but getting data from a Xen kernel would be preferred - the HV capabilities require it in fact. Regards, Dan. -- |=- Red Hat, Engineering, Emerging Technologies, Boston. +1 978 392 2496 -=| |=- Perl modules: http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ -=| |=- Projects: http://freshmeat.net/~danielpb/ -=| |=- GnuPG: 7D3B9505 F3C9 553F A1DA 4AC2 5648 23C1 B3DF F742 7D3B 9505 -=|
