To enable virtualization, you will probably need to open your BIOS, and explicitly allow virtualization. It will be similar if your computer uses an AMD processor.įrom the previously mentioned egrep command, if you get output in color, like for example getting vmx, then you will know that your OS supports virtualization. If you get output like: VT-x and or/vmx, like on my computer, then you will know that your OS supports virtualization. Model name: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4710HQ CPU 2.50GHzįlags: 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 syscall nx pdpe1gb rdtscp lm constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts rep_good nopl xtopology nonstop_tsc aperfmperf pni pclmulqdq dtes64 monitor ds_cpl vmx est tm2 ssse3 sdbg fma cx16 xtpr pdcm pcid sse4_1 sse4_2 x2apic movbe popcnt tsc_deadline_timer aes xsave avx f16c rdrand lahf_lm abm epb tpr_shadow vnmi flexpriority ept vpid fsgsbase tsc_adjust bmi1 avx2 smep bmi2 erms invpcid xsaveopt dtherm ida arat pln pts vmx is for Intel and svm is for AMDįrom my own computer, here is the output I get after typing in lscpu. You will be looking for output like vmx, svm, or virtualization.
To test if your CPU supports virtualization, you can type either of the following commandsĮgrep -color=auto 'vmx|svm|0xc0f' /proc/cpuinfo
