Celejar wrote: > On Thu, 10 Dec 2009 13:28:44 +1100 > Daniel Dalton <d.dalton@iinet.net.au> wrote: > >> On Wed, Dec 09, 2009 at 03:13:38PM +0100, tv.debian@googlemail.com wrote: > > ... > >>> Squeeze right now. Pay attention to the cpu if you want to use virtual >>> machines, mine doesn't have the required cpu flags. >> What am I looking out for? > > http://www.thelinuxblog.com/cpu-flags-and-meanings/ > http://blog.incase.de/index.php/cpu-feature-flags-and-their-meanings/ > > Celejar The SVM and VMX flags are only important if you are needing to do hardware virtualization. Running virtual machines has been available long before these extensions to the CPU came about. The only instance where you really *have* to have them (and you can't have them both anyway) is usually for running Windows under virtualization hypervisors like Xen. VMware can run Windows without it and I'm not certain about KVM as I haven't used it myself. In the few times I've tried running under hardware virtualization it seriously sucked in performance anyway. I'd be more concerned about get a CPU that supported 64-bit so I could run the host in 64-bit mode and have the option to run virtuals in 32- or 64-bit.
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