On Tue, 28 Aug 2012 20:01:41 +0200, Martin Steigerwald wrote: > Am Sonntag, 26. August 2012 schrieb Camaleón: >> On Sun, 26 Aug 2012 18:47:34 +0200, Sven Hartge wrote: >> > Camaleón <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> On Sun, 26 Aug 2012 18:26:19 +0200, Sven Hartge wrote: >> >>> Hmm. Could you post the output of >> >>> >> >>> grep flags /proc/cpuinfo >> >>> >> >>> so that we can see which capabilities the kernel thinks are >> >>> available on you CPU, >> >> >> >> That will be of little help because CPU will expose the VT-x >> >> capabilities despite the BIOS have them turned off. >> > >> > Oh? >> > >> > I must admit, I never owned a board/CPU combination, where the CPU >> > had virtualization features but the board lacked support for them. So >> > I assumed the capabilities list would reflect this. >> >> I experienced such situation: a BIOS revision that did not expose any >> VT- x options while the CPU supported them. A BIOS update solved it and >> a new menu for VT-x was added to the updated BIOS. >> >> But regardless this I think that "cpuinfo" is about CPU and not BIOS >> capabilities; from here you can't really know what to expect. > > May dmidecode be able to step in there? > > It shows the DMI / SMBIOS tables.
I never have had a positive experience with dmidecode because it provides untrustworthy output :-/ Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
