Is Visualization possibe.

[Rick Stevens]

On 12/10/2009 06:18 AM, Aaron Konstam wrote:
> /proc/cpuinfo displays cpu flags below. Is this system capable of
> visualization?
>
> flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov
> pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe nx lm
> constant_tsc pebs bts pni dtes64 monitor ds_cpl cid cx16 xtpr

If you mean "virtualization", the answer is yes and no.  You _can't_ do
_hardware_ virtualization (that's the "vmx" flag on Intel processors or
the "svm" flag on AMD processors).

You _can_ do _software_ virtualization (VMWare, qemu, virtualbox, etc.).
It's slower than hardware virtualization, but it does work.  I use it
on a couple of my less-capable machines.
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