[GTALUG] VM Support in Linux

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Mon, Mar 23, 2020 at 03:45:30PM -0400, William Witteman via talk wrote:
> I am poking around in Android development, and I have run into a snag
> as my machine is pretty old, and doesn't have, or doesn't have
> enabled, some virtual machine features.  Specifically:
> 
> > To use VM acceleration on Linux, your computer must also meet these requirements:
> >
> > For Intel processors: Support for Virtualization Technology (VT-x), Intel EM64T (Intel 64)
> > features, and Execute Disable (XD) Bit functionality enabled.
> > For AMD processors: Support for AMD Virtualization (AMD-V).
> 
> I am not at all sure that my machine will do this - if I was looking
> for a new machine, are there any caveats, warnings, red flags to watch
> for?  I'd prefer not to have to spend a ton of time/money thinking
> about my hardware - I'd like it to run Debian with as little messing
> about as possible.

How old is your machine?  Those features have been available on most
machines for 10+ years, although sometimes you have to change a BIOS
setting to enable them.

/proc/cpuinfo ought to show if it is available.

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Len Sorensen