How To Check If Your Computer Supports Hardware Virtualization

In the process of installation Mac Os X Snow Leopard on windows-based PC, one of the installation requirements is the computer should be able to support Hardware Virtualization. What is that? and how to check if my computer support it?

After googling the internet, finally I cound a good tool to do the job. The great thing is it supports both Intel-based and AMD based processor. The tool is able to the support of Hardware Virtualizaiton on both Windows and Linux OS.

The great tool is called: SecurAble. It can be download FREE at http://www.grc.com/securable.htm

SecurAble does not require any setup or installation. The executable file can simply be run as a stand-alone Windows or Linux/Wine program.

For Windows: Just double click the securable.exe.



For Linux: you can run the following command: egrep ‘(vmxsvm)’ /proc/cpuinfo

If nothing is printed, it means that your CPU doesn’t support hardware virtualisation. Otherwise, it does.

Note: SecurAble may detect that your CPU does not support hardware virtualization if your computer does but it has been disabled at BIOS. So, if the tool detect that your CPU does not support Hardware Virtualization, go to BIOS and check whether it has been turned ON.

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