Right, lack of firmware support for VT-x is probably the most common problem people have.
Features need to be turned on (in MSR's), sometimes microcode needs to be updated [doesn't strictly need to happen from firmware] ... Peace. Andrew On 7/17/06, David Brain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Not from first hand experience, but on even the current dual core range apparently has the VMX extensions necessary to run unmodified guest OSs. There have been various reports for a while on the Xen mailing lists about people getting Windows (XP) running, although the virtualization support also has to exist in the BIOS in order for it to work. David. On 7/17/06, Jason Tower <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > intel has apparently released its latest line of cpus (dual double core 2 > dynamic duo or some other brilliant marketing name). the interesting part > is these supposedly include the xen-friendly virtulization bits, such that a > guest OS no longer has to be xen aware. can anyone speak from first-hand > experience how well it works? > > jason > -- > TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug > TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ > TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ > -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/
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