I should also mention, on VMs, /proc/cpuinfo returns the Guest's CPU config as seen by the OS and configured on the VM host; but dmidecode bypasses this and reports the Physical host's info where the VM happens to be running on.
I should also mention, on VMs, /proc/cpuinfo returns the Guest's CPU config as seen by the OS and configured on the VM host; but dmidecode bypasses this and reports the Physical host's info where the VM happens to be running on.