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VIRTUALBOX UBUNTU 12.04 INSTALL
VIRTUALBOX UBUNTU 12.04 SOFTWARE

You can use the Ubuntu software GUI based interface or you can use the command line

VIRTUALBOX UBUNTU 12.04 INSTALL

It’s time to download and install the kvm packages. If you reach this section, we assume that you meet the basic requirements in order to have KVM software running. If the output is something like x86_圆4, you are running a 64-bit In the sytem tab, you can see the version of the operating system.įor the geek, you can also using the command line and digit the following command line (see screenshot)

Whatever the desktop interface you are running, type in the dash/activities, system and select system monitor. Using the system monitor interface, you can easily check that the operating system you are running is 32-bit or 64-bit. Note: For your information, you can have kvm installed on a 32-bit system but will be then able to run only 32-bit guests Verifying that Operating system version If the Output is 1 or greater, you are running 64-bit CPU and can proceed with the KVM installation If the output is O, you are not using a 64-bit CPU. To check this, you can simply try to install ubuntu 64-bit on your system, if the 64-bit architecture is not supported, you will get an error message and the installation process will be stopped.Īnother way (if you have already installed Ubuntu) would be to issue the following command Knowing that the new Microsoft Operating system only support 64-bit, this would make sense. We would recommend to run a 64-bit version of Ubuntu 12.04 simply because you will be able to host 32-bit and 64-bit virtual machines. If you receive a message similar to KVM Acceleration cannot be used might means that hardwared-assisted virtualization capabilities is present on the system but not activitated in the BIOSĬhecking the CPU architecture (32-bit or 64-bit).

If you receive a message similar to “INFO: your cpu does not support KVM extensions, KVM acceleration can not be used”, you might still be able to run virtual machines but the performance will not be really good since you will not be using KVM extensions.

I had to install this package first in order to be able to run the kvm-ok command (see the screenshot below). I issue this command on my system as well and discovered that I was missing some packages (cpu checker). To check that your computer support virtualization, you can issuse one of the following commands :Īnother way to check would be to use the command kvm-ok. In this quite old post, we were already describing the way to check for virtualization support. Intel-VT cpu and AMD-V are cpu type that support hardware virtualization. Verifying that CPU support virtualizationīefore installing any virtualization software, you might want to ensure that you have a cpu with hardware assisted virtualization. Before enabling the kvm feature, you will first need to ensure that you meet the hardware and software requirements. So, Let’s Go Introductionīy default, Linux Operating system provides within the kernel virtualization capabilities i.e.

We will investigate these other options in some coming posts.Īt the moment, let focus on the KVM Solution…. However, note that solutions such as virtualbox or vmware (server or player) can be also installed on your Ubuntu machine and have virtualization capabilities. I was looking for possible virtualization software that could be used with Ubuntu 12.04 and the first that came into my mind was KVM. The KVM virtualization software is built-in in Linux Operating system. A topic that I wanted to write about since a really long time is the KVM virtualization solution. As you can see from my previous posts, I’ve been playing around with the Ubuntu 12.04 software.