[OT?] a viable laptop for exploring virtualization on f11?

[Adam Huffman]

Kyle McMartin wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 05, 2009 at 11:49:17AM +0100, Peter Robinson wrote:
>   
>> All the current Intel Centrino platforms have support for the intel
>> extensions. I find the penryn processors very good and have run up to
>> 3-4 virt machines on my Dell D630. It has a T9300 processor which has
>> 6 meg cache (not sure how useful that is for virt) but I would
>> recommend lots of RAM, and a 7200 RPM HDD.
>>
>>     
>
> Sadly just because the CPU supports it, isn't enough. There's a history
> of vendors being... incompetent, shall we say, with having proper BIOS
> support for things, VT included.
>
> When in doubt, google should almost certainly be able to find /someone/
> else who has tried it on a given laptop model. It's a shame most vendors
> don't have an equivalent to thinkwiki.
>
>   
Yes, my Vaio has a suitable processor but it's disabled in the BIOS and 
when I complained to Sony they weren't too interested.

Some brave people have tried to hack the BIOS to re-enable it.