I can emulate OS/X under VirtualBox, but if I had real Intel Hardware, that task would become much easier. Now I'm not doing that often and I'm not going to make a big investment in it, but again my main focus is to run KVM / VirualBox.
Recent tests on my new W520 Thinkpad show that with VT-d and multi-core i7 I can boot Ubuntu 1204 in 3-4 seconds and Windows 7 in about 9 seconds. Also what impressed me was the fact the the VM was able to use 100% of the network with no measurable overhead. I d/l updates at the speed of my cable modem. Not saying that AMD is bad, just that I want the flexibly to emulate many OSes and AMD limits me. Also where I work and most HPC shops deploy Intel servers so I want to really learn and exploit EFI bios, you need UEFI/EFI to have access to the tools I'm continuing to research the Intel side of things, also note that if I stick with AMD then I will end up just fixing my old "out of date" system, not really progress just duck-tape. On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 3:31 PM, Allen <[email protected]> wrote: > On Friday, April 20, 2012 02:46:10 PM Luther Woodrum wrote: > > > > > > The amd cpus also come with virtualization support. > > > Note that there are several types of hardware support for virtualization. > The > more commonly known support is support for CPU virtualization. There > is also > support for I/O virtualization. Intel refers to this as VT-d. AMD refers > to it > as IOMMU. > > If you want this I/O virtualization support you need to check CPU and > chipset > and BIOS. When I researched this in late 2010, the AMD IOMMU support > was > available in less expensive hardware than the Intel VT-d support. > > To be honest, I have no idea whether it is worthwhile to have I/O > virtualization support in a hobbyist desktop PC. > > BTW, Joe, with regard to your plan for 8 GB RAM, DDR3 is quite cheap > now. Today > Newegg had a Shell-shocker on an 8 GB DDR3 RAM stick, so even on a > conventional > mobo you can now get 32 GB RAM at reasonable cost. I don't know if > you'd need > that much. > > > > So, why are you now so interested in switching to the intel chips? > > > I was wondering the same thing. > > Lex > > > > On Thu, 19 Apr 2012, Joseph Apuzzo wrote: > > > Mother board finally fully failed, no POST nothing. I need to replace > the > > > mother board and memory ( the fatal short was somewhere in that > section ). > > > Since I do not want to put good money after bad, I want to move > up to > > > Intel > > > i7 (4 core with 8Gb memory) )with EFI etc. > > > But since I have been with AMD for the last 10 years or so, I'm a > tad bit > > > out of touch with Intel MB chip-sets and features. > > > > > > That is what are the virtualization features and or chip-set family to > > > get? > > > This should go without saying but I ask from a "I'm going to mainly > use > > > Linux and run KVM / Virtualbox etc." angle not a "MS Windows 7 / 8" > angle > > > > > > Don't have to fix this tomorrow, but want to get back in the game > at least > > > by the end of the month or sooner. > > > > > > PS: there will be no services, just immediate family will be there for > the > > > disposal at the recycling center. > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org > > http://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug > > > > Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm) Vassar College > > May 2 - Git > > Jun 6 - Why the Web Needs HTML5 > > Jul 11 - Arduino-palooza II > _______________________________________________ > Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org > http://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug > > Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm) Vassar College > May 2 - Git > Jun 6 - Why the Web Needs HTML5 > Jul 11 - Arduino-palooza II > -- /** Joe Apuzzo ** Call: KD2AKU ** PGP/GPG: key ID BB5C7 **/
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