How to enable virtualization?

Jerry Feldman gaf at blu.org
Thu Mar 29 07:34:52 EDT 2007


On Wed, 28 Mar 2007 16:51:48 -0400 (EDT)
Scott Ehrlich <scott at MIT.EDU> wrote:

> If a 64-bit machine has the virtualization special feature for 
> simultaneous running of two operating systems (i.e. XP and Linux), how is 
> the feature enabled/used?
> 
> How would I boot both and switch between them?
> 
> Does the method differ between AMD and Intel?
Just a couple of bits, currently VMWare does not use this technology.
As presented in our meeting last December, they stated that they
benchmark faster without it. 

However, Xen and Virtual Iron do use it. 


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