How to enable virtualization?

[gaf at blu.org (Jerry Feldman)]

On Thu, 29 Mar 2007 12:12:12 -0400
"Kristian Hermansen" <kristian.hermansen at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 3/29/07, Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org> wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> And KVM requires it:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kernel-based_Virtual_Machine
> 
> KVM is expected to surpass Xen in a year.  It is less intrusive to the
> kernel than Xen, and kernel devs are a little upset about having to
> accept large patches to accommodate it.  Keep an eye on it.  It is
> mainline since 2.6.20...
Certainly could be a contender. I think we were talking about it at the
last meeting a bit.

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