Determine if my PC supports HW Virtualization

Question

How, in general, does one determine if a PC supports hardware virtualization? I use VirtualPC to set up parallel test environments and I\'d enjoy a bit of a speed boost.

Answer 1

You can take a look in the BIOS of the machine. It indicates if the machine supports hardware virtualization. You can run programs like virtual pc even if you machine does not support HW virtualization, but if the machine supports it the program take advantage of this extensions.