[GTALUG] VM Support in Linux

[William Witteman]

Yeah, that's the crux of it - my CPU is definitely 10+ years old.

The magic of Linux has meant that my quad core machine with 2 Gb of
RAM has been serving me well for a decade.

The only problem the machine has given me is that the CMOS battery
died, so I have to reset the time whenever there's a power outage.

Thanks to all!

On Wed, 25 Mar 2020 at 12:25, Lennart Sorensen
<lsorense at csclub.uwaterloo.ca> wrote:
>
> 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.
>
> --
> Len Sorensen