From: adam@address.invalid   
      
   Aragorn wrote:   
   > On Friday 03 August 2012 04:59, Adam conveyed the following to   
   > alt.os.linux.mandriva...   
   >   
   >>    My system is a new HP p7-1258 with an AMI BIOS.  The processor is an   
   >> AMD A8-3820.   
   >   
   >       grep svm /proc/cpuinfo   
      
   flags		: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov   
   pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 ht syscall nx mmxext fxsr_opt   
   pdpe1gb rdtscp lm 3dnowext 3dnow constant_tsc rep_good nopl nonstop_tsc   
   extd_apicid aperfmperf pni monitor cx16 popcnt lahf_lm cmp_legacy svm   
   extapic cr8_legacy abm sse4a misalignsse 3dnowprefetch osvw ibs skinit   
   wdt arat cpb npt lbrv svm_lock nrip_save pausefilter   
      
   for each core.  "svm" is there, about 3/4 of the way through, between   
   cmp_legacy and extapic.   
      
   > See my reply to Dave Hodgins. ;-)   
      
   Thanks!  That would explain why the important flag was either 'vmx' OR   
   'svm'.  OTOH it doesn't explain why my system has the svm flag but VBox   
   gives an error when trying to install a 64-bit guest OS.   
      
   Adam   
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