From: stryder@telenet.be.invalid   
      
   On Friday 03 August 2012 15:33, Adam conveyed the following to   
   alt.os.linux.mandriva...   
      
   > 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.   
      
   I noticed, but by the way, if it hadn't been present, then you wouldn't   
   have gotten any output, so that in itself is also a proper indicator.   
      
   For the pedants, yes, I know that you need to specify a regexp as the   
   search string for grep so as to exclude other occurrences of the   
   character sequence "svm". :p   
      
   >> 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.   
      
   I'm guessing that it must be a bug in your copy of VirtualBox.  Perhaps   
   it is looking only for the Intel virtualization technology.  It has come   
   to my attention that AMD is often ignored by software developers,   
   despite that AMD's specifications are open and have been shared with the   
   FLOSS operating system and hypervisor developers.   
      
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