Enabling Virtual Machine supportn of virtualization. (buying virtualization support)

Jerry Feldman gaf at blu.org
Mon Sep 28 14:36:29 EDT 2009


On 09/28/2009 01:49 PM, Lloyd Kvam wrote:
> But shopping for virtualization in a laptop seems to be pretty hopeless.
> I could not find any mention of virtualization in any of the laptop spec
> pages.  I tried to use the Dell sale support service.  The Dell folks
> supplied a laptop spec with an Intel T6400.  Fortunately, I checked the
> Intel site and saw that the T6400 does not support virtualization.  In
> desperation, I used the Intel and AMD sites to cross check the CPU's
> that were listed in the newegg laptop selection menu.
>   
Basically, you can easily run Virtualbox under a Windows Host OS or
Linux Host OS as I have a relatively old 64-bit laptop with no
virtualization flags on the chip, and I've been running virtualization
on it for years, first VMWare server then Virtualbox.

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Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org>
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