Laptops and hardware virtualization

[gaf-mNDKBlG2WHs at public.gmane.org (Jerry Feldman)]

My wife has a Toshiba Satellite L505, but that has an Intel Core 2 Duo
T6600 that does not have VT technology:
http://ark.intel.com/Product.aspx?id=3D37255&processor=3DT6600&spec-codes=
=3DSLGF5

The bottom line is that to effectively utilize the Virtualization
technology that is in the CPU whether AMD or Intel, you need to have the
chipsets and a way to enable the feature. While I have not actually
checked it out, I understand that some Dell laptops have the chipset
support, but not the BIOS support, so you might need a script to enable
the feature.

On 02/14/2010 09:41 AM, Shankar Viswanathan wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 14, 2010 at 6:51 AM, Franklin H. Chasen <chasen-KVEKqrk+LIrQFizaE/u3fw at public.gmane.org=
m> wrote:
>  =20
>> On Sat, 2010-02-13 at 23:06 -0500, Shankar Viswanathan wrote:
>>
>>    =20
>>> Every recent (i.e. mid-2006 or later) AMD processor supports AMD-V
>>> extensions as well.
>>>
>>>      =20
>> Does that include my netbook's AMD L110 called an Athlon by Gateway bu=
t
>> perhaps actually a Sempron?
>>    =20
> The decoder ring that I was given to map external product names to
> internal ones doesn't show the L110, so I cannot be 100% sure whether
> it supports AMD-V or not. But as a general rule of thumb, barring the
> Geode line of chips, all other AMD processors from mid-2006 onwards
> support it (even Semprons). As Jerry mentioned in his other post, grep
> for 'svm' in /proc/cpuinfo and that will tell you for sure. Otherwise,
> email me the family/model/stepping identifiers of your chip and I can
> look it up for you (can be got from the 'System Information' or some
> such icon from the Windows control panel).
>  =20

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