On Thursday 03 June 2010 21:33:24 Govender, Sashan wrote: > Hi > > We bumped into this issue with VMWare ESX 4 where it doesn't support > hardware virtualization if the processor is an AMD Athlon/Opteron > (http://communities.vmware.com/docs/DOC-9150). Does linux-kvm have a > similar issue? More specifically will the the module kvm_amd.ko support > AMD-V on an Opteron 2218? Yes, KVM doesn't try to be too smart. If you have svm/vt, it runs. If you don't, it falls back to tcg (qemu's normal/slow mode). The kvm-amd module will load as long as the bios and the CPU both support and enable svm. > > Thanks > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html