On Fri, Nov 09, 2018 at 05:31:00AM +0000, Chris Knadle wrote: > A logical place to check or the lack of BIOS virtualization features and show > an > error message for this would be within the .postinst script for the virtualbox > package in Debian. This way when Virtualbox is installed the user installing > it > can be warned that VT-x or AMD-V isn't active and give a hint as to how to fix
It's pretty easy to miss messages in postinst scripts; sometimes a few hundred go flying past and some of them print information that is noise at best. Something this important probably ought to be a message in the GUI somewhere, since people expect to interact with VirtualBox via GUI. The cpu-checker package in Ubuntu might be worth stealing. The kvm-ok script runs a handful of small checks to try to diagnose if KVM-based virtualization acceleration will work or not: $ kvm-ok INFO: /dev/kvm exists KVM acceleration can be used https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cpu-checker https://launchpad.net/cpu-checker Thanks
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