[opensuse] Processor Recommendations?
Hello list members! 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). Here is what I came up with so far, correct me if I am wrong, any of the Turion X2's will support hardware vitualization and any of the core 2 duo's (except 2 specific like T5200 and T5400) will support hardware virtualization. I have, tried to be anyway, been a supporter of amd where possible since way back in the lawsuit days. What can I say, I like the underdog. I would prefer the Turions but am will to settle for the core 2s. Thoughts and Suggestions very welcome. -- John Registered Linux User 263680, get counted at http://counter.li.org -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
John Pierce
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. -- A.M. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Alexandr Malusek wrote:
John Pierce
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 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Well, I have 3 previous versions of win4lin 9x, I suppose I could upgrade to win4lin pro. My concern was have access to the hardware, previous versions of win4lin did not allow for the burning CDRWs and I had to do back flips to get to my network and usb printers. I am going to to a little more research in the kvm area though, it sounds interesting that guests just run a a process. -- John Registered Linux User 263680, get counted at http://counter.li.org -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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Alexandr Malusek
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J Sloan
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John Pierce