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Yes, it aught to work (for bitcoind, at least-- I haven't tested with bitcoin-qt). getinfo will tell you if it is working (look at "hashespersec").
You might want to run a testnet-in-a-box, it is 60 time easier to generate blocks on it:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/bitcoin/files/Bitcoin/testnet-in-a-box/