Laptops and hardware virtualization

[Daniel Clark]

On Sat, Feb 13, 2010 at 2:12 PM, Jerry Feldman <gaf-mNDKBlG2WHs at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> 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.

Thinkpad x61s has support; I would guess later models would as well.
This was also a big consideration for me when I bought :-)

You can also use containerization software like lxc (in mainline
linux), openvz or linux-vserver, where this support doesn't matter.

lxc doc isn't great yet, but there is some work happening on that, such as:
http://en.opensuse.org/LXC
http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=707070

Happy Hacking,
-- 
Daniel JB Clark | Free Software Activist | http://pobox.com/~dclark