On Wed, July 14, 2010 15:08, Paul Heinlein wrote: > On Wed, 14 Jul 2010, David Dyer-Bennet wrote: > >> The flags from /proc/cpuinfo after this reboot where I checked the >> virtualization setting in the bios are: >> >> flags : fpu tsc msr pae cx8 apic mtrr cmov pat clflush acpi >> mmx >> fxsr sse sse2 ss ht syscall nx lm constant_tsc ida pni est ssse3 cx16 >> sse4_1 sse4_2 popcnt lahf_lm > > You're already running the Xen kernel and your view of /proc/cpuinfo > is from the dom0, right? > > I don't think you can see the vmx (Intel) or svm (AMD) flags from > dom0, but the underlying hypervisor should be able to see it. Try > > sudo xm dmesg | grep -i hvm > > You should see something like "(XEN) HVM: VMX enabled". BINGO! Thank you. I had even wondered slightly about whether my view from within the system might not be the right one for this. To be precise, I see: [localddb at prcapp00 ~]$ sudo /usr/sbin/xm dmesg | grep -i hvm (XEN) HVM: VMX enabled (XEN) HVM: Hardware Assisted Paging detected and enabled. Thank you very much! -- David Dyer-Bennet, dd-b at dd-b.net; http://dd-b.net/ Snapshots: http://dd-b.net/dd-b/SnapshotAlbum/data/ Photos: http://dd-b.net/photography/gallery/ Dragaera: http://dragaera.info