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

[Przemek Klosowski]

   > 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.

I think the VT has to be somehow enabled by the BIOS initialization
code.  I noticed a setting in one of the BIOSes that I recently worked
with that enabled the virtualization, so I surmise that there are some
capability bits that have to be enabled,and that BIOSes that don't
offer it as a choice might leave it in the OFF state permanently.