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# egrep -c '(vmx|svm)' /proc/cpuinfo

Create and empty disk of 1Gb and launch a VM as:

# dd if=/dev/zero of=disk.img bs=1M count=1024
# qemu-kvm -boot d -hda disk.img -cdrom /dev/cdrom

On Ubuntu use kvm instead qemu-kvm command

Where

  'drives': floppy (a), hard disk (c), CD-ROM (d), network (n)

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 __NOTOC__
-== How to determine if the host can run virtualization on hardware ==
+=== How to determine if the host can run virtualization on hardware ===
 * If the CPU supports hardware virtualization then ensure it is enabled on BIOS
-<pre><nowiki>
  # egrep -c '(vmx|svm)' /proc/cpuinfo
- </nowiki></pre>
+=== How to quick launch an instance ===
-== How to quick launch an instance ==
 Create and empty disk of 1Gb and launch a VM as:
-<pre><nowiki>
  # dd if=/dev/zero of=disk.img bs=1M count=1024
  # qemu-kvm -boot d -hda disk.img -cdrom /dev/cdrom
+: On Ubuntu use <code>kvm</code> instead <code>qemu-kvm</code> command
- </nowiki></pre>
- On Ubuntu use `kvm` instead `qemu-kvm` command
 Where
-* `-boot` [order=drives][,once=drives][,menu=on|off]
+* <code>-boot</code> [order=drives][,once=drives][,menu=on|off]
    'drives': floppy (a), hard disk (c), CD-ROM (d), network (n)
-* `-hda/-hdb` file  use 'file' as IDE hard disk 0/1 image
+* <code>-hda/-hdb</code> file  use 'file' as IDE hard disk 0/1 image
-* `-cdrom` file     use 'file' as IDE cdrom image (cdrom is ide1 master)
+* <code>-cdrom</code> file     use 'file' as IDE cdrom image (cdrom is ide1 master)