Q: How can I easily check if my hardware supports virtualization features such as Second Level Address Translation?

This Sysinternals tool displays your processor's virtualization feature support, and more.

John Savill

October 14, 2011

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A: The Microsoft Windows Sysinternals page displays the updated Coreinfo program with a new -v switch that lists information about the processor and its virtualization feature support, including Intel and AMD SLAT implementations.

When I typed

D:ProgramsTools>coreinfo -v

into my machine, it returned this information:

Coreinfo v3.0 - Dump information on system CPU and memory topology

Copyright (C) 2008-2011 Mark Russinovich

Sysinternals - www.sysinternals.com

 

Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU 950 @ 3.07GHz

Intel64 Family 6 Model 26 Stepping 5, GenuineIntel

HYPERVISOR - Hypervisor is present

VMX * Supports Intel hardware-assisted virtualization

EPT * Supports Intel extended page tables

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