CPU Hardware Virtualization support

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Run the following command to find out if your cpu supports hardware virtualization:

egrep '^flags.*(vmx|svm)' /proc/cpuinfo

AMD processors would have the svm flag set and Intel processor the vmx flag.

Please note that hardware virtualization also needs to be enabled in the bios before being usable.

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