>Are there any flags in /proc/cpuinfo that show this? The processors is >a 4 year old AMD64. Likely or not?
Check your bios. If your CPU+board support it, there will be an option to enable-disable it. A 4year old AMD64, something like athlon3000+ ? (which is what I've got) probably won't have it. But I'm not sure that you'll need it. I don't use vmware for virtualisation, I've messed with virtualbox which works ok and is very easy to setup, but prefer qemu.Both perform ok, even without 'hardware virtualisation' features. I guess you'll just have to go by trial and error, especially when you're depending on using stuff like hardware-dongles. Tom
