On Aug 5, 2013 6:50 PM, "Wesley Werner" <<a href="mailto:wesley.werner@gmail.com">wesley.werner@gmail.com</a>> 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 :) > > -- > sent with mutt > > -- > ubuntu-za mailing list > <a href="mailto:ubuntu-za@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-za@lists.ubuntu.com</a> > <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-za">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-za</a>