Laptops and hardware virtualization

[Franklin H. Chasen]

On Sun, 2010-02-14 at 09:41 -0500, Shankar Viswanathan wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 14, 2010 at 6:51 AM, Franklin H. Chasen <chasen-KVEKqrk+LIpWk0Htik3J/w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> > On Sat, 2010-02-13 at 23:06 -0500, Shankar Viswanathan wrote:
> >
> >> Every recent (i.e. mid-2006 or later) AMD processor supports AMD-V
> >> extensions as well.
> >>
> >
> > Does that include my netbook's AMD L110 called an Athlon by Gateway but
> > perhaps actually a Sempron?
> 
> The decoder ring that I was given to map external product names to
> internal ones doesn't show the L110, so I cannot be 100% sure whether
> it supports AMD-V or not. But as a general rule of thumb, barring the
> Geode line of chips, all other AMD processors from mid-2006 onwards
> support it (even Semprons). As Jerry mentioned in his other post, grep
> for 'svm' in /proc/cpuinfo and that will tell you for sure. Otherwise,
> email me the family/model/stepping identifiers of your chip and I can
> look it up for you (can be got from the 'System Information' or some
> such icon from the Windows control panel).
> 
> -Shankar

The AMD L110 processor does have "svm" in cpuinfo. I then booted into
Vista and ran the "Microsoft Hyper-V compatibility check for systems
with AMD processors" program from AMD. It reported that AMD-V technology
is not enabled in BIOS. I booted into the Phoenix Bios setup (version
v1.3103) but there is no option for enabling virtualization. Unless
there is some way to enable AMD-V I will just have to live without it.

-Frank