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KVM on Via Nano (Isaiah) CPUs?

DISCUSSION Jesse Ahrens 2 participants 2 messages Apr 1, 2009 – Apr 2, 2009 KVM

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Via engineers have contacted me and confirmed that this is a problem in the processor.

I'd like to clarify. Stepping 2 Nano processors do not support VMX. This should have been disabled by the BIOS. Support for VMX was not finished until stepping 3. If you have a stepping 2 processor with this enabled please let me know which platform it is on so we can have the manufacturer release a new BIOS.

Jesse Ahrens
Systems Engineer
Centaur Technology

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Hi Jesse!

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Via engineers have contacted me and confirmed that this is a problem in the processor.

I'd like to clarify. Stepping 2 Nano processors do not support VMX. This should have been disabled by the BIOS. Support for VMX was not finished until stepping 3. If you have a stepping 2 processor with this enabled please let me know which platform it is on so we can have the manufacturer release a new BIOS.

What is the actual Stepping for Via Nano Processors? Is VT running fine since stepping 3?

Regards

Oliver