Thanks for the input, everyone. I guess I´ll get started with a Linux VM and take it from there.
Having some trouble getting one going, though.
It won´t start, and I´ve gathered it´s because i don´t have virtualization enabled on my CPU in BIOS.
Code:
CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i3-4130 CPU @ 3.40GHz (3392.22-MHz K8-class CPU)
Origin="GenuineIntel" Id=0x306c3 Family=0x6 Model=0x3c Stepping=3
Features=0xbfebfbff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CLFLUSH,DTS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,HTT,TM,PBE>
Features2=0x7fdafbbf<SSE3,PCLMULQDQ,DTES64,MON,DS_CPL,VMX,EST,TM2,SSSE3,SDBG,FMA,CX16,xTPR,PDCM,PCID,SSE4.1,SSE4.2,MOVBE,POPCNT,TSCDLT,AESNI,XSAVE,OSXSAVE,AVX,F16C,RDRAND>
AMD Features=0x2c100800<SYSCALL,NX,Page1GB,RDTSCP,LM>
AMD Features2=0x21<LAHF,ABM>
Structured Extended Features=0x27ab<FSGSBASE,TSCADJ,BMI1,AVX2,SMEP,BMI2,ERMS,INVPCID,NFPUSG>
XSAVE Features=0x1<XSAVEOPT>
VT-x: (disabled in BIOS) PAT,HLT,MTF,PAUSE,EPT,UG,VPID
TSC: P-state invariant, performance statistics
That should mean that the CPU supports virtualization and I just have to enable it in BIOS, right?
It´s kind of old hardware, so I´d like to make sure it can be done before I start connecting a monitor and all that...