Virtualisation on non vmx/svm CPU

[Michael Hipp]

Onno Benschop wrote:
> After banging my head against a brick wall for some weeks 

> I'm sure this is documented somewhere, but I've been unable to locate
> something that solves this in the Ubuntu way, rather than start with
> instructions like:
> 
>    1. Download the source tar ball from xyz.com
>    2. Install the dev packages
>    3. ./configure && make && sudo make install
>    4. Profit!
> 
> If I wanted to do that, then I might as well run Gentoo - not a
> preferred approach.
> 
> In case you're wondering, I'm also not interested in solutions that
> start with:
> 
>    1. Change your sources.list to include xyz.com
>    2. apt-get update, apt-get install magic
>    3. Profit!

If you find an answer to this, I'd sure like to hear of it also.

I did find this: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WindowsXPUnderQemuHowTo

But scanning that list of instructions somehow leaves me feeling nauseous.

Surely the state of virtualization on Ubuntu isn't as pre-alpha as it appears.

Michael