Greg Freemyer wrote:

On 9/18/07, Rainer Klier wrote:

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Am Dienstag, den 18.09.2007, 15:00 +0200 schrieb jdd:

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Hello can I state than any dual core provessor can do full virtualisation?

no. not if you mean hardware-virtualization-technologies. there are pentium dual-cores for example, which are, of course dual core processors, but don't have hardware-virtualization-technologies.

Also, it requires BIOS support as I understand it.

Yes, I recently set up a VM server (FSC Primergy RX300S3 with 12 GB RAM and 2 Quad Core CPUs 1.6 Ghz. At the moment I've got 7 VMs running (most rather low usage), and overall the CPU utilisation is staying in the low one digit range. The BIOS had a setting for the virtualisation functions (disabled by default) called Vanderpool-something which I enabled. At the moment it looks as if I will run out of RAM much sooner than get into any trouble because of CPU/hdd usage. Though the server is running under Windows 2003 64bit. -- Sandy List replies only please! Please address PMs to: news-reply2 (@) japantest (.) homelinux (.) com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

jdd wrote:

Rainer Klier wrote:

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Am Dienstag, den 18.09.2007, 15:00 +0200 schrieb jdd:

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Hello can I state than any dual core provessor can do full virtualisation?

no. not if you mean hardware-virtualization-technologies. there are pentium dual-cores for example, which are, of course dual core processors, but don't have hardware-virtualization-technologies.

hell!

how can one know if the processor is able to do this (in fact use Xen fully)

thanks jdd

I think it will have svm or vmx in /proc/cpuinfo. grep -E 'svm|vmx' /proc/cpuinfo -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

I would ask the vendor to see if their bios reflects the technology, as the processor is independent of the motherboard, as per the processor, you can always call or email the vendor support as well Jose jdd wrote:

Aristidis Zoutsos wrote:

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how can one know if the processor is able to do this (in fact use Xen fully)

thanks jdd

I think it will have svm or vmx in /proc/cpuinfo.

grep -E 'svm|vmx' /proc/cpuinfo

well... I would know *before* buying it :-()

jdd

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On Tuesday 18 September 2007 14:09:12 Aristidis Zoutsos wrote:

jdd wrote:

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Aristidis Zoutsos wrote:

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how can one know if the processor is able to do this (in fact use Xen fully)

thanks jdd

I think it will have svm or vmx in /proc/cpuinfo.

grep -E 'svm|vmx' /proc/cpuinfo

well... I would know *before* buying it :-()

jdd

Check the processors in the URL below.

http://www.intel.com/technology/platform-technology/virtualization/products .htm?iid=technology_virtualizationoverview+tabs_products

Try these links: http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/HVM_Compatible_Processors http://www.intel.com/products/processor/index.htm?iid=home+hdr_nav2_processo... -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

On Thu, 2007-09-20 at 08:36 +0200, jdd wrote:

Hans Witvliet wrote:

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On Tue, 2007-09-18 at 15:00 +0200, jdd wrote:

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Hello can I state than any dual core provessor can do full virtualisation?

thanks jdd -- No,

Afair, only the dual-core with numbers higher than 6000 have the VT-extensions,

and no AMD?

Yes, those with pacifica-extensions. But i never had the chance to play with those. So can't say anything about it HW -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org