Ihtisham Khaja
2007-Apr-24 18:50 UTC
[Xen-users] Fully Virtualized guest on non-VT hardware?
Hi- I have a Sony Vaio Laptop VGN-FJ290P with an Intel(r) Pentium(r) M Processor 750 (1.86 GHz, FSB 533, Cache 2MB). I also have a MacBook with a 2.0GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor (64 bit). What I want to do is create a virtual cluster on each of these machines that is representative of a real cluster that has some AMD nodes. So I am wondering do I go down the Fully Virtualized route? Given the hardware is it even possible to go down this path? I am a newbie to virtualization, so any comments would be very helpful [image: :)] Ihtisham (I initially posted this to the customer support forum. This is a repost to the open source forum.) _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
cremes.devlist@mac.com
2007-Apr-24 22:43 UTC
Re: [Xen-users] Fully Virtualized guest on non-VT hardware?
On Apr 24, 2007, at 1:50 PM, Ihtisham Khaja wrote:> Hi- > > I have a Sony Vaio Laptop VGN-FJ290P with an IntelĀ® PentiumĀ® M > Processor 750 (1.86 GHz, FSB 533, Cache 2MB). > > I also have a MacBook with a 2.0GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor (64 > bit). > > What I want to do is create a virtual cluster on each of these > machines that is representative of a real cluster that has some AMD > nodes. > > So I am wondering do I go down the Fully Virtualized route? > Given the hardware is it even possible to go down this path? > > I am a newbie to virtualization, so any comments would be very helpfulI am not positive, but I do not think the Sony''s processor supports VT. The MacBook with a Core 2 Duo definitely does. I''m currently working on getting Gentoo running under Xen 3.0.4 on that hardware (using a 64-bit Gentoo environment). You can put up to 3GB of RAM in a MacBook Pro which would be plenty for you to mock up a small cluster. I''m not sure of the maximum RAM for a regular MacBook but it''s at least 2 GB. So, I think it is possible to go down this path on the MacBook, but you''ll need to use paravirtualization for the Sony laptop. Yes, I think it''s possible given this hardware. Good luck. cr _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users