Comment 29 for bug 452323

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Joseph Salisbury (jsalisbury) wrote :

I re-ran all of the tests using the latest in karmic-proposed. All tests passed:

$ dpkg -l | grep qemu
ii qemu-kvm 0.11.0-0ubuntu6.3 Full

virtualization on i386 and amd64 hardwa

Test 1: VT Enabled in BIOS(On a machine that supports VT):
$ kvm-ok
INFO: Your CPU supports KVM extensions
INFO: /dev/kvm exists
KVM acceleration can be used

Test 2a: (run this on a system that does not support VT)
joe@jts-ubuntu:/etc/apt$ kvm-ok
INFO: Your CPU does not support KVM extensions
KVM acceleration can NOT be used

Test 2b: (sudo modprobe -r kvm, and then re-run kvm-ok and see that /dev/kvm is gone)
$ kvm-ok
INFO: Your CPU supports KVM extensions
INFO: /dev/kvm does not exist
HINT: sudo modprobe kvm
KVM acceleration can NOT be used

Test 2c: (reboot into BIOS, disable VT, and re-run kvm-ok)
$ kvm-ok
INFO: Your CPU supports KVM extensions
INFO: KVM is disabled by your BIOS
HINT: Enter your BIOS setup and enable Virtualization Technology (VT)
KVM acceleration can NOT be used

Thanks,

Joe