how to find out whether hardware kvm is being used?

_______0 · Guru Joined: 15 Oct 2012 Posts: 521

hi,

I am trying qemu with hardware kvm but I am not sure is being used. There's no iommu irq activity in /proc/interrupts.

Both processes kvm-irqfd-clean and kvm-pit/28618 are idle.

:'-(

audiodef · Posted: Wed Jan 09, 2013 1:51 pm Post subject:

You'd have to know whether your hardware supports it and set it in the kernel. I don't remember which item to look for, but I think it shows up in cat /proc/cpuinfo. There's one for Intel and one for AMD.
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Hu · Administrator Joined: 06 Mar 2007 Posts: 23091

Intel CPUs with hardware assisted virtualization advertise vmx. AMD CPUs with hardware assisted virtualization advertise svm.

Anon-E-moose · Posted: Thu Jan 10, 2013 10:57 am Post subject:

Load up the virtualization image without loading kvm and see how slow it goes. :^)

World of difference on my machine
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