How to enable virtualization?

[Kristian Hermansen]

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...
-- 
Kristian Hermansen

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