I'm trying to check if virtualisation (AMD-V or Intel VT) is enabled programmatically. I know the bash commands that gives you this information but I'm trying to achieve this in C .

On that note, I'm trying to avoid using std::system to execute shell code because of how hacky and unoptimal that solution is. Thanks in advance!

CodePudding user response：

No, there is no way to detect virtualization support using only standard C facilities. The C standard library does not have anything related to hardware virtualization. (Its exposure of low level details like that is extremely limited.)

You would need to use OS-specific facilities to detect this.