Re: embedded emulation: bhyve + vt-x on amd fx-8320

hi,

answer as usually late, but you can check procesor virtualisation flags
with command:

For Linux:egrep -wo
'vmx|ept|vpid|npt|tpr_shadow|flexpriority|vnmi|lm|aes' /proc/cpuinfo
| sort | uniq; egrep -wo 'vmx|lm|aes' /proc/cpuinfo | sort | uniq |
sed -e 's/aes/Hardware encryption=Yes (&)/g' -e 's/lm/64 bit cpu=Yes
(&)/g' -e 's/vmx/Intel hardware virtualization=Yes
(&)/g'aeseptflexprioritylmtpr_shadowvmxvnmivpidHardware encryption=Yes
(aes)64 bit cpu=Yes (lm)Intel hardware virtualization=Yes (vmx)On
Freebsd:egrep -woi
'vmx|ept|vpid|npt|tpr_shadow|flexpriority|vnmi|lm|aes'
/var/run/dmesg.boot | sort | uniq; egrep -woi 'vmx|lm|aes'
/var/run/dmesg.boot | sort | uniqAESEPTLMVMXVPIDAESLMVMX


this is for intel, amd has it's own implementation for bot. Basically *VMX*
is minimum, the extended page support - *EPT *is second most important not
minimum but most modern hypervisors like bhyve also need this one.

i believe for amd you are looking for *AMD-v* *SVM *but rather verify if
correct acronyms.

i believe
Many Regards
Jan Jurák


On Wed, Apr 26, 2023 at 7:52 PM Tomek CEDRO <tomek@cedro.info> wrote:

> On Wed, Apr 26, 2023 at 4:56 PM Gregory Byshenk  wrote:
> > On Mon, Apr 24, 2023 at 11:53:02AM +0200, Tomek CEDRO wrote:
> > > Thanks Pete, this is my main question if bhyve / vbox / kernel
> > > supports it at all :-)
> >
> > From my experience it does.
> > Some time back I upgraded the CPUs on an HP Z800 because the
> > original ones did not support VT-D. Then I had to enable that
> > in the BIOS.
> > But afterwards I was able to run a rancher cluster under bhyve
> > to play with. it was only a toy, but it worked.
>
> Thank you Greg. I see no Virtualization settings in my BIOS. Probably
> the hardware is too old for that and need an upgrade after 10 years
> :-) Thank you for the confirmation! :-)
>
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