cpu processing capabilities

[Thomas Charron]

On Sat, Sep 26, 2009 at 6:56 PM, Lloyd Kvam <python at venix.com> wrote:
> http://ark.intel.com/Product.aspx?id=42014
> claims that the P7550 supports virtualization which I expect to show up
> as vmx in the cpuflags.
>
> I bought a new HP laptop which featured a P7550 processor and expected
> to be able to use KVM.  Unfortunately, the vmx flag is not present, and
> HP does not believe they disabled vmx capabilities.
>
> http://forum.notebookreview.com/showpost.php?s=c0762a76f7b00eada10c7b8f986d9822&p=5272854&postcount=6
> This post convinced me that the Intel page is wrong.
>
> Can anyone suggest a good course of action?  Have any of you encountered
> this problem?  I can grumble to Newegg amd HP, but Intel appears to be
> the party at fault.

  Same issue with my Toshiba.  They don't have to enable it, or even
disable it.  They have to add support for it in BIOS.

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-- Thomas