On Sun, 7 Oct 2007, Iain Curtain wrote:

> psrinfo -vp
> The physical processor has 2 virtual processors (0 1)
>   x86 (AuthenticAMD 20FB1 family 15 model 43 step 1 clock 2211 MHz)
>         AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4200+
> 
> Revision F of family 0xf (15) has model range 0x40 (64)
> to 0x5f (95) (i.e., extended model numbers 4 and 5).
> You have model 43 or 0x2b which is extended model 2,
> which corresponds to revision E.

Interesting info!

> Note that you need rev F if you want hardware virtualisation,
> e.g. for Windows domU guests that are not paravirtualized.
> If you have xVM paravirtualized domU OS such as Nevada build 75
> or various Linux versions you do not need hardware virtualization.
> 
> So I think you and me are out of luck for Windows.

Indeed.  So I guess the next question is: is it possible to replace
the Opeteron 152 CPU in the Ultra 20 with something that has at least
as good performance as my current one, and supports HW virtualisation
for Windoze?

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