Nov 08
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.
April 28th, 2008 at 14:11
[...] never accomplished (at least under a Linux host). The CPU Hardware Virtualization support (see this post to check if your CPU has support for it) in combination with the Virtualbox Guest Extensions make [...]