[PLUG] Virtual Iron

alan alan at clueserver.org
Thu Oct 18 22:48:14 UTC 2007


On Thu, 18 Oct 2007, Kris wrote:

> alan wrote:
>> On Thu, 18 Oct 2007, Robert Kopp wrote:
>>
>>> Recently hardware that is enhanced for virtualization, notably the AMD-V and Intel VT CPUs have emerged. Not all of it is expensive--a Pentium D 920 CPU is about $130 on Ebay.
>>>
>>> You can download securable.exe and execute it with WINE to see if you have these capabilities. I don't.
>>>
>>> Nevertheless, I use virtual machines, so this technology interests me. Does it enhance the performance of VM's a lot? If so, can someone suggest desktop PC's or components that have this capability?
>>
>> I plan on buying an AMD64 dual core machine in the next couple of months.
>> I have yet to be able to figure out what of the AMD64 processors support
>> the hardware virtualization.  (Hopefully it does since that is one of the
>> main reasons I am buying a new machine.)
>>
>
> ....For Intel....
> # grep vmx /proc/cpuinfo
>
> ....For AMD....
> # grep svm /proc/cpuinfo

Cool. Thanks! That is exactly what I needed to know.

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