How to check if your hardware supports virtualization

http://virt-tools.org/learning/check-hardware-virt/

/proc/cpuinfo flags

/proc/cpuinfo will tell you if the processor supports virtualization and if it is enabled (but it could not show up in flags because it is disabled — more on this below).

The flags to look out for are:

• vmx — Intel VT-x, basic virtualization
• svm — AMD SVM, basic virtualization
• ept — Extended Page Tables, an Intel feature to make emulation of guest page tables faster.
• vpid — VPID, an Intel feature to make expensive TLB flushes unnecessary when context switching between guests.
• npt — AMD Nested Page Tables, similar to EPT.
• tpr_shadow and flexpriority — Intel feature that reduces calls into the hypervisor when accessing the Task Priority Register, which helps when running certain types of SMP guests.
• vnmi — Intel Virtual NMI feature which helps with certain sorts of interrupt events in guests.