Re: [PLUG] Virtualization for small system?

[JP Vossen <jp@jpsdomain.org>]

> Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2010 04:33:18 -0500
> From: Richard Freeman<r-plug@thefreemanclan.net>
>
> On 11/23/2010 08:16 AM, Art Alexion wrote:
> > >      1. VBox will run a 64 bit windows guest on a 32 bit Linux host ...
> > >         but very poorly.  Don't bother with it.

> One more that I'll add - I can't vouch for 32-bit hosts, but virtualbox
> will not run 64-bit guests on a 64-bit host unless it has hardware
> virtualization support.  Most CPUs sold in the last few years have this,
> but if you have an older system you're probably out of luck.

And even when the CPU supports it, the BIOS has to a) support it and b) 
be enabled.  I've seen various forum posts that claim the former, and 
I've run into the latter, where a brand new box had it disabled in the 
BIOS out-of-the-box.  I simple reboot and BIOS tweak fixed it, but 
ruined my uptime. :-)

* Is my CPU VT capable
$ egrep '^flags.*(vmx|svm)' /proc/cpuinfo
### Any output = yes


Related:
* Is my CPU 64-bit (64bit)
$ [ "$(grep flags /proc/cpuinfo | grep -wo 'lm' | sort -u)" = 'lm' ] && 
{ echo '64-bit'; } || { echo '32-bit'; }


Later,
JP
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