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From: Oliver Rath <rath68@web.de>
Subject: Re: KVM on Via Nano (Isaiah) CPUs?
Date: Thu, 02 Apr 2009 11:08:54 +0200
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Hi Jesse!

Jesse Ahrens schrieb:
> > 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