Confirm If CPU Supports Virtualization with lscpu
The RHEL 8 desktop PC I’m working on right now is going to be a testbed for all sorts of virtualization technologies – Docker, KVM and VirtualBox. Today I found a really cool command for showing CPU properties.
lscpu command is one of the Linux commands that helps you confirm hardware properties and key parameters of your CPU: number of cores, threads, 32-bit/64-bit support, architecture and many other useful things.
CPU information with lscpu
I’m using a relatively old AMD based system. Here’s what lscpu reports:
$ lscpu Architecture: x86_64 CPU op-mode(s): 32-bit, 64-bit Byte Order: Little Endian CPU(s): 4 On-line CPU(s) list: 0-3 Thread(s) per core: 2 Core(s) per socket: 2 Socket(s): 1 NUMA node(s): 1 Vendor ID: AuthenticAMD CPU family: 21 Model: 19 Model name: AMD A8-6500 APU with Radeon(tm) HD Graphics Stepping: 1 CPU MHz: 2815.703 CPU max MHz: 3500.0000 CPU min MHz: 1700.0000 BogoMIPS: 6987.00 Virtualization: AMD-V L1d cache: 16K L1i cache: 64K L2 cache: 2048K NUMA node0 CPU(s): 0-3 Flags: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 ht syscall nx mmxext fxsr_opt pdpe1gb rdtscp lm constant_tsc rep_good nopl no nstop_tsc cpuid extd_apicid aperfmperf pni pclmulqdq monitor ssse3 fma cx16 sse4_1 sse4_2 popcnt aes xsave avx f16c lahf_lm cmp_legacy svm extapic cr8_legacy abm sse4a misalignsse 3dnowprefetch os vw ibs xop skinit wdt lwp fma4 tce nodeid_msr tbm topoext perfctr_core perfctr_nb cpb hw_pstate ssbd vmmcall bmi1 arat npt lbrv svm_lock nrip_save tsc_scale vmcb_clean flushbyasid decodeassists pa usefilter pfthreshold
Based on the above information I can see that my CPU is indeed going to support hardware virtualization and will allow me to host and run multiple 64-bit virtual machines.
That’s it for today!