[Dclug] [Ma-linux] V12N laptop recommendation?

[jecottrell3 at comcast.net]

Let me prefix this message by saying that I might be completely wrong, but my experience is the exact opposite.

While I have been led to believe that "almost any recent CPU is VT", it would seem that nothing but the high-end (read: server) (read: > $200) ones have it. Worse yet, it seems almost impossible to divine exactly which processors have it. The terminology and the web sites are way too confusing.

You'd think that if they really wanted to hype virtualization, they'd give you the chaopns nce to opportunity to select processors based on that criterion.

Since most laptops start at $400, and you add $200 for the CPU, you are now up to $600 at least.

Sit down with google. Budget a day or two to weed out what you can buy.

Hint: you might do better to ask Dell or HP which of their laptops have it.

JIM

P.S. I am talking abouut the VT bit here. If you want to run Windows inside Xen under[1] Linux, that's what you need. But if you just to run virtual Linuxi, then it's better[2] to use paravirtualization, not full virtualization. 

[1] well, technically, it's Linux inside Xen. But you are also running Linux "on top of" Xen, or "Xen under Linux".

[2] better in this context is "more effiecient" not "easier"


----- Original Message -----
From: "Mackenzie Morgan" <macoafi at gmail.com>
To: ma-linux at calypso.tux.org
Cc: dclug at calypso.tux.org
Sent: Monday, May 18, 2009 12:10:42 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
Subject: Re: [Dclug] [Ma-linux] V12N laptop recommendation?

On Monday 18 May 2009 11:56:19 am Harry J. Foxwell wrote:
> Looking for a reasonably inexpensive laptop
> that supports Intel VT or AMD-V virtualization
> technology for Linux (Xen & KVM).
> 
> Any experience/recommendation for this?

AFAIK, all modern Intel CPUs do.  At the very least, the "Core*" ones do.  I'm 
pretty sure the only difference between a Celeron and one of those is the cache 
size, though, so it should be any modern Intel CPU.

-- 
Mackenzie Morgan
http://ubuntulinuxtipstricks.blogspot.com
apt-get moo

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