KVM - virtualization support

Mohammed Gamal m.gamal005 at gmail.com
Tue Dec 21 09:46:42 EST 2010


On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 11:22 AM, Rajat Sharma <fs.rajat at gmail.com> wrote:
> you can turn it on in BIOS, if your CPU supports virtualization. Look for VT
> extention or Virtualization under CPU section of your BIOS.
>
> Rajat
>
If the CPU doesn't have vmx or svm flags to begin with, then it most
likely does not support hardware virtualization.

> On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 12:19 PM, Sengottuvelan S
> <sengottuvelan.s at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> I am trying to see whether my kernel has KVM support or not. When i
>> execute
>> #egrep -c '(vmx|svm)' /proc/cpuinfo  , output shows '0'' which means my
>> custom kernel does not have capability of KVM.
>>
>> How do i enable or support KVM in my new kernel. Is it possible or not?
>>
>> Please someone throw light on this.
>>
>> --
>> Regards,
>> S. Sengottuvelan.
>>
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