

If you see : INFO: Your CPU does not support KVM extensions To see if it is enabled or not from xen, enter:Ĭat /sys/hypervisor/properties/capabilities If 1 or more it does - but you still need to make sure that virtualization is enabled in the BIOS.īy default, if you booted into XEN kernel it will not display svm or vmx flag using the grep command. If 0 it means that your CPU doesn't support hardware virtualization. To see if your processor supports one of these, you can review the output from this command:

Intel and AMD both have developed extensions for their processors, deemed respectively Intel VT-x (code name Vanderpool) and AMD-V (code name Pacifica).

To run KVM, you need a processor that supports hardware virtualization.
