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.
--
Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org>
Boston Linux and Unix
PGP key id: 537C5846
PGP Key fingerprint: 3D1B 8377 A3C0 A5F2 ECBB CA3B 4607 4319 537C 5846
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: signature.asc
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 252 bytes
Desc: OpenPGP digital signature
Url : http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/private/gnhlug-discuss/attachments/20090928/50f5b01f/attachment.bin
More information about the gnhlug-discuss
mailing list