[PLUG] How to confirm OSS support before hardward purchase?

[Ted Kubaska]

This VT.. is this the so-called Van der Pool technology?
 -ted

On Mon, 2006-09-11 at 10:18 -0700, Paul Heinlein wrote:
> On Mon, 11 Sep 2006, eehouse wrote:
> 
> > There's also the issue, mentioned here recently, of testing whether 
> > an Intel-based box has "Virtualization Technology" disabled.  
> > That's never written up in company specs, and sales droids don't 
> > know what it is.
> 
> In /proc/cpuinfo, the 'flags' section should report 'vmx' if ia32 VT 
> is enabled.
> 
> I haven't, however, checked to see if enabling or disabling VT in BIOS 
> toggles the presence of the vmx flag.
> 
> My experience is that Dell ships with VT disabled, at least on Pentium 
> D chips. I don't know about other hardware/BIOS makers.
>