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

[John Summerfield]

Sven Lankes wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 05, 2009 at 11:17:51AM -0400, Kyle McMartin wrote:
> 
>> 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.
> 
> As far as I remember that is only valid for Intel based systems as VT
> needs bios support and the AMD counterpart always works without the
> vendor having to tweak the bios to enable support.
>  

Not so. I babysit some HP DC5850s which have AMD-64 processors, and 
AMD-V is turned off in the BIOS.

It's hidden under "security."

In my earlier rant, I intended to question whether 8 Gbytes is enough. 
Not all virtualisation software (not any on intellish hardware that I've 
noticed) allows overcomitting RAM.

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Cheers
John

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