Determine virtualization readiness in three seconds

analysis
Jan 5, 20081 min

Virtual Iron recently highlighted the top 10 posts that received the most attention in all of 2007 from its company blog. The blog post titled "The 3-Second Hardware Virtualization Check" seemed to be the company's biggest winner and most viewed. To recap, the posting involved a discussion around a free tool called SecurAble which, among other things, checks to see if the processor in your laptop, desktop or ser

Virtual Iron recently highlighted the top 10 posts that received the most attention in all of 2007 from its company blog.

The blog post titled “The 3-Second Hardware Virtualization Check” seemed to be the company’s biggest winner and most viewed. To recap, the posting involved a discussion around a free tool called SecurAble which, among other things, checks to see if the processor in your laptop, desktop or server supports resource virtualization. Or simply, does it run Intel-VT or AMD-V?

SecurAble, from Gibson Research Corp., also tells you more about the processor it found such as the CPU type, speed, maximum bit length and hardware Data Execution Prevention (D.E.P.).

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Alex Vasilevsky writes, “All you need to do is download and run the executable (no installation required). It takes about 3 seconds to determine if you’re virtualization ready.”

So, it’s no wonder that people checked out this posting. Who doesn’t want to know if their machine is virtualization ready in “3 seconds”.

To see the other Virtual Iron corporate blog top ten posts of 2007, click here.