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[Norbert Preining <preining@xxxxxxxx>]

On Mo, 10 Aug 2009, Raphael Gradenwitz wrote:
> Q: is VT not already enabled on sony z-series under Linux completely
> independent from bios?

No. Impossible.

> 
> Simple test on cpu flag 'vmx' like:
> 
>  # begin test
> echo; echo -n "  Full-Virtualization is ";\
> grep '^flags.*vmx' /proc/cpuinfo || echo -n "not ";\
> echo "suported by your CPU"; echo
>  # end test

And what did it echo out? Did you do that in your shell?

> and a working kvm (out of the box) makes me suspect that it does..

Does kvm show in the head "kvm", or is it running in qemu mode?

> The report this link [2] is pointing to is speaking about bios. But one
> can eg. completely bypass any bios update by simply installing the
> newest Linux Processor Microcode Data File from Intel [1]:
> 
> sudo apt-get install intel-microcode microcode.ctl

I am not sure about that.

> But even without the newest microcode installed I have got full
> virtualisation support on my VGN-Z21MN (ubuntu-jaunty and -karmic).
> Without any changes to the bios.

How did you check? What did the above code snippet say? How did you 
check that you have "full virtualisation"?

Best wishes

Norbert

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