check if VT-x is activated without having to reboot in Linux?

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719016 picture 719016 · Jun 20, 2012 · Viewed 68.5k times · Source

I have a laptop with Intel Core i5 M 450 @ 2.40GHz which apparently has VT-x but not VT-d. I have Ubuntu 12.04 32bit but would like to have a virtual 64bit terminal-based Linux running on it. How do I know if the BIOS has this VT-x feature activated without having to reboot?

Answer

scai picture scai · Jun 20, 2012

You can use rdmsr from msr-tools to read register IA32_FEATURE_CONTROL (address 0x3a). The kernel module msr has to be loaded for this.

On most Linux systems:

sudo modprobe msr
sudo rdmsr 0x3a

Values 3 and 5 mean it's activated.

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