As far as I know, there is no special way to detect BIOS-disabled SVM. BIOS should always trap #GP on writing SVME bit. So the way you suggested should work.
Pär, are you sure that EFER.SVME bit has been set when the error happened? Our architecture design team confirmed that enabling EFER.SVME twice won't cause any problem (There will be some performance loss though). Regards, -Wei Avi Kivity wrote: > Huang2, Wei wrote: >> SVM looks available on your machine. If possible, could you provide >> dmidecode information (type "dmidecode") for further verification? I >> know that some vendors disabled SVM feature in BIOS last year. But >> this was pretty rare. Maybe you can check whether BIOS has an option >> for SVM. >> > > Is there a way to detect whether the bios has disabled svm? If not, > is trapping the #GP on wrmsr(EFER) a good way to do it? ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ kvm-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/kvm-devel
