Xeon spans different microarchitectures so Opteron probably does as well.Īs for the compatibility of your motherboard to Bulldozer CPUs, it looks like the Socket AM3+ (Bulldozer) is backward compatible to Socket AM (K10) subject to motherboard BIOS support. So even if VMware does document to say "X" feature is required from AMD CPUs for versions 14/15/16, it may not be as simple as looking at flags in /proc/cpuinfo or some AMD product webpage.įrom what I understand Opteron is like a competitive brand name against Intel Xeon. You can't find this information in the Intel ARK pages though. Fortunately with Intel, it looks like it is clear cut that this feature is available from Westmere microarchitecture and onwards. It can be seen from MSR 0x485h bit 5 or the "Unrestricted guest" as in the vmware.log.
However, this feature cannot be seen as a flag from /proc/cpuinfo. With the Intel CPUs, Workstation Pro/Player 14/15/16 does check for the "unrestricted guest" during VM power up. (2) the powerup of the VM is not checking for presence/absence of the feature (1) the installer is not checking for the feature The fact that you could install version 16 and power up a VM and then crash on an unsupported AMD CPU means
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