Checking CPU / MMU Virtualization in use

[vAdmin]

Hi All,

is there any way to check if the CPU / MMU virtualization in our VM is being used or not ?

this is to compare and study about the usage of enabling the option into VT-X or leaving it in AUTO.

Cheers,

Kind Regards,

AWT

[mittim12]

If you want you can grep the vmware.log file for MONITOR and it will tell you which mode the VM is utilizing. It would look something like the text below. The filtered list is what mode it's currently running in. So in the case below it's running in Binary Translation.

Sep 02 21:40:52.925: vmx| MONITOR MODE: allowed modes : BT HV HWMMU

Sep 02 21:40:52.926: vmx| MONITOR MODE: user requested modes : BT HV HWMMU

Sep 02 21:40:52.926: vmx| MONITOR MODE: guestOS preferred modes: BT HWMMU HV

Sep 02 21:40:52.926: vmx| MONITOR MODE: filtered list : BT HWMMU HV

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[vAdmin]

Oh, thanks for the help man, but sorry to ask follow up question,

Since I'm using ESXi, how can I access that log ? is it through SSH ?

[mittim12]

Maybe you can gain access through the vMA or just use the VI client and go in through the datastore browser to download the file. You could just open it up in wordpad and search for Monitor.

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[AndreTheGiant]

You can enable ssh.

Or simple download the VM log file from the datastore browser (you can download the file also if the VM is running).

Andre