I work for a tech shop and we inherit computers from various places. I am looking for a small program/script I can run to tell me if the processor has any virtual machine extensions built into it. I am looking for something along the lines of SecurAble where it is a small simple dedicated program. A Linux or Windows program would work fine.
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Run this on a Linux box:
# egrep --color -i "svm|vmx" /proc/cpuinfo
VMX is the Intel processor flag and SVM is the AMD flag. If you get a match then you have support.
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1Heres a doc page describing /proc/cpuinfo flags: blog.incase.de/index.php/cpu-feature-flags-and-their-meanings Jun 9, 2009 at 17:55
For Linux, just cat /proc/cpuinfo and look at the "flags" section of the output.
For Windows, SecurAble seems to be the best option as far as I can tell, although someone else may have a better suggestion.
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Via this: mydigitallife.info/2009/05/05/… SecurAble doesn't even require installation.– MathewCJun 9, 2009 at 17:10
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For Windows CPUZ is a very quick way. It will list under the "Instructions" section on the first page.
Alternative on Windows Install Cygwin -> Open Cygwin terminal -> Run /cat/procinfo