On 7/22/2010 3:24 AM, Harald Servat wrote:
Hello list,
I'm planning to buy an Intel Atom based computer and install FreeBSD
(probably 8.1) on it, and II was wondering which are my options to run
VirtualBox.
First of all, recent Intel Atom processors do not support Intel VT-x.
According on the section of Troubleshooting of [1] it seems that VT-x is no
needed, but according to [2] it seems that VT-x is needed for 64 bit guest.
If this is correct, does it mean that in I'd be only able to install 32 bits
guests in that machine? Even if I install FreeBSD-amd64?
Another topic would be responsiveness, I know that Atom are not speedy,
but has anyone used it to virtualize another Linux (with or without X11) and
Windows (XP or 7)?
Thank you very much!
[1]http://wiki.freebsd.org/VirtualBox
[2] http://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch03.html#intro-64bitguests
About 3 months ago I picked up from Fry's Electronics a brand new
motherboard + processor for about $50. The CPU is a 2.5Ghz Intel
Celeron E3300. I put a spare 1GB stick of ram in it I had lying
around. The board itself is a clone BTC I think. I split the disk
into a 1GB Windows XP partition and FreeBSD 8 for the rest of it.
This runs a
session of XP in a VirtualBox that is literally just as fast as
XP running natively on the same box. You cannot tell the difference.
In fact, in some cases I think the XP session under virtualization
runs -faster-. I use the XP session to run Vsphere Client since
I manage some ESXi servers.
I personally think you could do better than the Atom.
Ted
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