On Wed, Dec 9, 2015 at 5:06 PM, John Andersen
On 12/09/2015 01:54 PM, Greg Freemyer wrote:
Mostly agreed, but:
- a lot of low-end PCs don't have the Intel CPU extension that makes virtual so fast (VT-x if I recall correctly). AMD has a similar extension I believe, but I mostly do Intel.
I haven't tried a VM without those extensions, but my impression is the performance is much worse.
Agreed.
But that's been standard for 10 years or more. Anything that can run a hyper-visor will be fine. AND lots of memory. Also More cores = better. But those things also seem to b standard these days.
Here's one counter example (possibly extreme): http://ark.intel.com/products/81712/Intel-Xeon-Processor-E5-2685-v3-30M-Cach... It was released Q3 of last year, so a relatively new CPU. It's $2K for the recommended price of just the CPU so this is the opposite of low-end, but it doesn't have VT-x included. Why that exists, I don't know. A more personal experience: My business partner bought a MS Surface 2 for $1,000 about 2 years ago. We didn't realize until later that it didn't have the VT-x extensions. That was in early 2014, so for whatever reason it was not universal that all decent machines had VT-x 24 months ago. I don't know about now. Greg -- Greg Freemyer www.IntelligentAvatar.net -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org