On 02/04/2010 01:06 PM, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > On Thu, 4 Feb 2010, Steve Berg wrote: > > >> >>> undoubtedly going to regret asking this, but i installed f12 on a >>> gateway laptop, whose /proc/cpuinfo reads (in part): >>> >>> model name : AMD Turion(tm) 64 X2 Mobile Technology TL-60 >>> stepping : 2 >>> cpu MHz : 800.000 >>> ... >>> flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic mtrr pge mca >>> cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 ht syscall nx mmxext fxsr_opt >>> rdtscp lm 3dnowext 3dnow rep_good extd_apicid pni cx16 lahf_lm >>> cmp_legacy svm extapic cr8_legacy 3dnowprefetch >>> >>> the above *seems* to suggest an oddly slow processor (800 MHz), but >>> the "svm" flag tells me it has AMD H/W virt support, correct? >>> >>> however, if i pop over to the corresponding(?) AMD page: >>> >>> http://products.amd.com/en-na/NotebookCPUDetail.aspx?id=18&f1=&f2=&f3=&f4=&f5=&f6=&f7=&f8=&f9=&f10= >>> >>> that page suggests that that processor is 2 GHz, but that there is >>> *no* H/W virt support. >>> >>> i'm confused. am i just misreading something? >>> >> You've probably got the cpuspeed daemon running and it's throttling >> the CPU since there's not enough load on the system to need the >> additional clock cycles. >> > gaaaah. of course, that was it. thanks. now to figure out the > virtualization oddity. > # modprobe kvm-amd errors returned will be self explanatory. if no error from command line, then: dmesg | tail That will confirm or deny kvm loading correctly. If so, virtualization is functional on that cpu. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
