Manuel Mely
2010-May-10 19:28 UTC
[Xen-users] about intel VT on new F11 series vaio laptops..
Hi, I would like to buy a laptop, preferably a core i7 one with plenty of ram to virtualize some windows and linux hosts; using Xen 4.0 obviously. I''ve read that earlier versions of vaio notebooks doesn''t support intel VT, this option is disabled in the Bios from factory; that''s really scary.; but I''ve read also that newers versions of F11 vaios are ready to enable this value. Can somebody really clarify me this? Someone here using a VPC-F11XXXX? thanks in advance. _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
Fajar A. Nugraha
2010-May-11 03:56 UTC
Re: [Xen-users] about intel VT on new F11 series vaio laptops..
On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 2:28 AM, Manuel Mely <mmelyp@gmail.com> wrote:> Hi, > > I would like to buy a laptop, preferably a core i7 one with plenty of > ram to virtualize some windows and linux hosts; using Xen 4.0 > obviously. > I''ve read that earlier versions of vaio notebooks doesn''t support > intel VT, this option is disabled in the Bios from factory; that''s > really scary.; but I''ve read also > that newers versions of F11 vaios are ready to enable this value. Can > somebody really clarify me this? Someone here using a VPC-F11XXXX?You could ask the sales rep if it support WIndows 7''s XP mode. Or, if you can get it to boot from DVD/USB, check out Xen Live CD and see if it can run HVM guests. Or see if you can run CPU identification utility from http://www.vmware.com/download/shared_utilities.html Let others know what you find. Personally, I stick with known-to-work models, like Acer Aspire 4740G with Intel i5-430M. -- Fajar _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users