Laptops and hardware virtualization

[srehrlich-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org (Scott Ehrlich)]

On Sun, Feb 14, 2010 at 8:54 AM, Jerry Feldman <gaf-mNDKBlG2WHs at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> I think that most business laptops will have that set up. I've got a
> Thinkpad at work, and I'll check that on Tuesday.
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> On 02/14/2010 08:37 AM, Matthew Gillen wrote:
>> On 2/13/2010 2:12 PM, Jerry Feldman wrote:
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>>> I was just wondering what laptops might have support for virtualization.
>>> I know that the Toshiba Satellite and Acer Aspire do not have BIOS
>>> support (or the chipset) to support hardware virtualization. However, I
>>> do know that some business laptops do have virtualization support.
>>>
>> Every Dell laptop we've gotten at work lately has had the hw virt
>> support (but it always ships disabled in the BIOS).
>>
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What is the desired end result?   As I learned from this list, among
others, the VT support in BIOS only appears to affect the ability of
the system to run a 64-bit VM.  Am I missing something else?    Was
there something in the original question of the OP I lost track of?

Thanks.

Scott

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