Re: Opteron AMD-V support

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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
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