[PLUG] Determining BIOS Settings Without Rebooting

[Rich Shepard]

On Wed, 12 Aug 2009, ckonstanski at pippiandcarlos.com wrote:

> One way (neither the quickest nor the easiest) to test would be to attempt
> installing and running kvm.  But that would require the requisite kernel
> modules, which could be checked in your .config file:
>
> CONFIG_HAVE_KVM=y
> CONFIG_HAVE_KVM_IRQCHIP=y
> CONFIG_VIRTUALIZATION=y
> CONFIG_KVM=m
> CONFIG_KVM_INTEL=m
> # CONFIG_KVM_AMD is not set
> # CONFIG_KVM_TRACE is not set
>
> Naturally you'd want to disable CONFIG_KVM_INTEL and enable CONFIG_KVM_AMD.

Carlos,

   Ah, so! Good lesson. The default Slackware-12.2 kernel has both set as
modules:

CONFIG_HAVE_KVM=y
CONFIG_KVM=m
CONFIG_KVM_INTEL=m
CONFIG_KVM_AMD=m
# CONFIG_KVM_TRACE is not set

   This is the 2.6.27.7 kernel.

Thanks,

Rich

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