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Every Intel-based CPU since the late 1980s is designed to support a

supervisor for multitasking, but it’s hard work for that same CPU to support

multiple supervisors on multiple VMs. Both AMD and Intel added extra

features to their CPUs more than a decade ago just to support hypervisors:

Intel’s VT-x and AMD’s AMD-V. This is hardware virtualization support.

If your CPU and BIOS support hardware virtualization, you can turn it on

or off inside the system setup utility. Figure 22-11 shows the virtualization

setting in a typical system setup utility.

Figure 22-11 BIOS setting for CPU virtualization support

RAM Apart from hardware virtualization support, the second—and most

important—concern is RAM. Each virtual machine needs just as much RAM

as a physical one, so it’s common practice to absolutely stuff your host

machine with large amounts of RAM. The more virtual machines you run,

the more RAM you need. Generally, there are two issues to keep in mind:

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