[one-users] how to verify whether or not the motherboard support virtualization technology

[Carlo Daffara]

Usually it's not a motherboard problem, but a BIOS one. We have found some hardware platform where there is cpu support for virtualization, but the BIOS (not updated by the manufacturer) does not enable it.
A few useful notes are here: http://virt-tools.org/learning/check-hardware-virt/
To check for virtualization support in the processor and bios, you can use the kvm-ok tool, or if you don't find it in your kvm installation you can use the cpu-checker utility:
https://launchpad.net/cpu-checker
cheers,
carlo daffara

----- Messaggio originale -----
Da: "Qiubo Su (David Su)" <qiubosu at gmail.com>
A: "Users OpenNebula" <users at lists.opennebula.org>, discuss at lists.opennebula.org
Inviato: Lunedì, 21 ottobre 2013 3:17:09
Oggetto: [one-users] how to verify whether or not the motherboard support	virtualization technology





Dear OpenNebula Community, 

I want to upgrade an desktop PC bought 6 years ago to support virtualization technology. For the whole PC to support virtualization, apart from the CPU supporting virtualization, the motherboard needs to support virtualization as well. It is easy to upgrade the CPU, but difficult to upgrade the motherboard. If the motherboard already supports virtualization, then I don't need to upgrade the motherboard. 

Does anyone know how to check whether the motherboard support virtualization or not? 



in the Ubuntu terminal, run the below commands and get the corresponding return: 


1) dmidecode | grep -A4 'Base Board Information' 
Base Board Information 
Manufacturer: Intel Corporation 
Product Name: D945GCCR 
Version: AAD78647-301 
Serial Number: BTCR71100WJ1 


2) dmidecode -t 4 | grep Socket 
Socket Designation: LGA 775 
The above return is the information of the motherboard of my desktop PC. don't know whether or not it support virtualization. 


Thanks for your help ! 


Kind regards, 
Q.S. 
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