Which two CPU flags indicate virtualization support?
A host's ability to run hardware-accelerated virtual machines is confirmed by checking for CPU virtualization-related indicators exposed by the kernel, with vmx representing Intel's hardware virtualization extension flag, and kvm representing the kernel-based virtual machine acceleration interface that administrators check for alongside it to confirm the host can support virtual machines efficiently. Logical Volume Manager (lvm) is a storage management subsystem unrelated to CPU virtualization capability, and xvm is not a recognized virtualization-support indicator, which leaves vmx and kvm as the two relevant flags/indicators for virtualization support.
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