Laptops and hardware virtualization

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

My future son-in-law bought a server for his business, and when it was
delivered he couldn't run Hyper-V because the specific chip did not have
VT technology although he specified it on the order. The vendor (I
believe was CDW) replaced the server free of charge with one that had
the required hardware + threw in more memory since it was their error.
But with laptops, as I mentioned most recent business laptops will have
full virtualization support. The issue is the lower end consumer
laptops. The advantage of consumer laptops is they support some of the
nice features, such as wide screen, but may not have virtualization
support even if the cpu supports it.

On 02/14/2010 10:25 AM, Charles Bennett wrote:
> This is such a PITA problem.  Intel uses VT as a market differentiating=

> feature.
>
> You need to be able to get fairly exact specs from the vendor about the=

> processor being used.
>
> I've found this page helpful to sort out Intel chips:
>    http://processorfinder.intel.com/
>
>
> AMD is easier.  Everything currently in the market that's not Sempron
> has the virtualization support.
>
> As for BIOS settings...  I've only seen Dell do this thing where you
> have to choose VT in the BIOS but I don't get out much.
>
> My ThinkPad T61p (very nice, corporate issued) has VT support.  Most of=

> the T-series do.
>
> There appear to be some Dell Precision laptops that have Nehalem (!) an=
d
> will certainly support VT.
>
> The idea that you'd have a laptop without this feature freaks me out.
> Most youngsters I know run at least 2 OS, one in virt.  We send our
> sales guys out with demos of our Linux-based product running under virt=

> on their laptops.  Who do they expect to get along without this feature=
,
> Grandma?
>
> c
>  =20

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