[ubuntu-za] Latest Virtualbox for Ubuntu 13.04/12.10/12.04/Linux Mint/other Ubuntu derivatives - Noobs on Ubuntu, Mint and Debian, HD Wallpapers, Tutorials

[Frans de waal]

On Aug 5, 2013 6:50 PM, "Wesley Werner" <wesley.werner at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Aug 05, 2013 at 10:30:46AM -0500, Lee Sharp wrote:
> > On 08/05/2013 07:24 AM, Trevor Hughes wrote:
> > >Are there idiot proof instructions for setting KVM up? Virtualbox is a
> > >click away from installation and so easy.
> >
> > The problem with idiot-proof instructions, is that we always come up
> > with a better idiot. :)
>
> As long as the rate of growth of the latter does not surpass the former
> ;)

Not posible we have firsthand experience in that.  Even the double idiot
proof docs aren't proof enoagh
>
> Trevor it usually involves installing qemu and kvm from the repos. For a
> GUI client I use qemu-launcher. Then all you need to do is make sure
> your bios has hardware virtualization enabled, and find the path of kvm
> (which kvm) and type that path into the qemu-launcher setting for "path
> to qemu". kvm==qemu but takes advantage of your hardware virtualization
> so it runs natively on your processor and is much faster.
>
> An easy way to check if your CPU supports virtualization extensions is
> to grep them out from the cpu flags:
>
>   cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep 'vmx'
>
> will show a cpu flags line for each processor that has the extension.
>
> It can't get any simpler than that :)
>
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