Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2800 mails)

[J Sloan <joe@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Alexandr Malusek wrote:
> John Pierce <john.j35@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
>   
>> I have googled, read xen wiki, looked at amd and intel web sites and
>> still cannot come up with a definitive answer.  I am, within the next
>> week, going to purchase two laptops and I want to be able to run xen
>> source with full virtualization on at least one of them (my wife still
>> needs win xp).
>>     
>
> I won't help with the laptops.  I just want to mention that a CPU with
> hardware virtualization support doesn't guarantee that Xen will be
> able to use full virtualization.
>
> I use Xen on a server with two dual-core Xeons 5150 (2.66 GHz) and a
> Supermicro X7DAE motherboard.  Both the CPU and the BIOS support
> virtualization.  Virtual machines using paravirtualization work OK
> there but the creation of a virtual machine using full virtualization
> failed.  (I used the openSUSE 10.2 iso file)
>
> If you don't find the right hardware then you may consider Win4Lin Pro
> Desktop (http://www.win4lin.com/) instead.
My .02: win4lin pro works well for me -

It's lightweight in comparison to vmware, but more comprehensive than wine.

Joe
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