[et-mgmt-tools] CPU flags for fullvirt on Itanium ?

[Daniel P. Berrange]

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

The former is the primary check used in virt-install/virtmanager. The latter
is used in virt-manager if the former fails so we can tell the user

 'Your CPU supports full virt, but your BIOS has disabled it'

With KVM support we're going to have to use the latter as the primary check
since I don't believe KVM gives us better info based on the MSRR.

Anyway back to $SUBJECT - I believe either, or both of these checks may
well be wrong on Itanium, but have no full-virt ia64 box to test on. So
can anyone confirm what capability is shown by Xen on ia64, and/or what
CPU flags the OS will present for the VTi capability ?  Simply emailing
me the '/sys/hypervisor/properties/capabilities' and '/proc/cpuinfo'
files would be best, so I can add them to a unit test suite.

Regards,
Dan.
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