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

[Daniel P. Berrange]

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.
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