How to Check if your Computer Supports ‘Hardware Virtualization’ in Linux

Yesterday I wrote about how to check if you computer supports Windows 7 XP mode. Today I am going to tell you how to check if your processor supports Hardware Virtualization under Linux. I already mentioned in this post that XP mode requires that your processor supports Hardware Virtualization. If you are switching to Windows 7 from Linux and you are sure that you’ll need to use XP mode then this post will guide you through.
If you are running your Linux under “Intel” based processor then open your terminal and paste the following command and then press enter.

if [ 'grep -c vmx /proc/cpuinfo' -ge 1 ]; then echo Supports Intel VT; else echo No Support for Intel VT; fi

If you are running your Linux under “AMD” based processor then open your terminal and paste the following command and then press enter.

if [ 'egrep -c '(vmx|svm)' /proc/cpuinfo' -ge 1 ]; then echo Supports VT; else echo No Support for VT; fi