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August 23, 2012

Enable Kernel virtualization on Intel/AMD arch

To check if the hardware supports Virtualizaton Technology(VT), open a terminal and type

egrep '(vmx|svm)' /proc/cpuinfo

if you can see some output, then your hardware supports VT.

Next to enable kernel modules, type

sudo modprobe kvm_intel
sudo modprobe kvm

Note

  • vmx – is for Intel
  • svm – is for AMD
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