JA: How can a person tell if their hardware supports kvm?
Avi Kivity: You can easily tell if your processor supports hardware extensions by running the command
$ egrep '^flags.*(vmx|svm)' /proc/cpuinfo
If there's any output at all, your processor supports kvm. Unfortunately, some early laptops that support kvm have VT extensions disabled in the BIOS, so a BIOS upgrade is required. There is also a comprehensive list on the Xen site, http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/HVM_Compatible_Processors.
Posted by hufey at April 24, 2007 10:38 AM