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How, in general, does one determine if a PC supports hardware virtualization? I use VirtualPC to set up parallel test environments and I’d enjoy a bit of a speed boost.
Download this: http://www.cpuid.com/cpuz.php
Also check, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86_virtualization
Edit: Additional, I know it’s for XEN but the instructions are the same for all VMs that want hardware support. http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/HVM_Compatible_Processors
I can’t try it from work, but I’m sure it can identify whether you’ve got the Intel VT or AMD-V instructions. Intel will have a ‘vmx’ instruction and AMD will have a ‘svm’.
On linux you can check /proc/cpuinfo, ‘egrep ‘(vmx|svm)’ /proc/cpuinfo’