On Sun, 2012-04-15 at 18:48 -0400, Ben Scott wrote: > On Sun, Apr 15, 2012 at 8:36 AM, Bill Freeman <[email protected]> wrote: > >> You're looking at the wrong part. CPUs are commodities these days. > > > > Not quite, if I understand correctly. I wouldn't want, for example, a > > core i3, since it doesn't support "virtualization technology", so I > > wouldn't be able to run 64 bit guest OSes. > > Hmmm. I don't believe that's correct. See, for example: > > http://ark.intel.com/VTList.aspx > > But you raise a good point: Not all CPUs have the same feature set, > so my statement that they're a commodity is inaccurate.
My current laptop uses a chip model name : Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU P7550 @ 2.26GHz that the Intel site listed as having VT-x. Unfortunately, that was not true. In actual practice, it has not mattered for me. Virtual Box has been able to run the guests I needed. (These were all 32 bit guests.) -- Lloyd Kvam Venix Corp DLSLUG/GNHLUG library http://dlslug.org/library.html http://www.librarything.com/catalog/dlslug http://www.librarything.com/catalog/dlslug&sort=stamp http://www.librarything.com/rss/recent/dlslug _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
