On Mon, Mar 23, 2020 at 03:45:30PM -0400, William Witteman via talk wrote:
I am poking around in Android development, and I have run into a snag as my machine is pretty old, and doesn't have, or doesn't have enabled, some virtual machine features. Specifically:
To use VM acceleration on Linux, your computer must also meet these requirements:
For Intel processors: Support for Virtualization Technology (VT-x), Intel EM64T (Intel 64) features, and Execute Disable (XD) Bit functionality enabled. For AMD processors: Support for AMD Virtualization (AMD-V).
I am not at all sure that my machine will do this - if I was looking for a new machine, are there any caveats, warnings, red flags to watch for? I'd prefer not to have to spend a ton of time/money thinking about my hardware - I'd like it to run Debian with as little messing about as possible.
How old is your machine? Those features have been available on most machines for 10+ years, although sometimes you have to change a BIOS setting to enable them. /proc/cpuinfo ought to show if it is available. -- Len Sorensen