[Clug-tech] Vidieo-taping Gustin Johnson's presentation

[Gustin Johnson]

John Clarke wrote:
> Hi Gustin,
> 
> You planned to post your talk slides to Google Docs. I checked clug.ca
> and for a followup email note to advise how or where guys like me can
> fetch them. Please would you let me know where or if you have had time
> to post them.
> 
Thanks for the reminder.  I have not posted them yet, and I already have
some revisions.

I have been unable to get VMWare workstation 6.5 running on my laptop
anymore, but VMWplayer is currently working fine.

> As I am weighing laptop specs that support virtualization (software and
> also hardware), I am especially curious what your laptop specs are for
> laptop model, cpu and ram?
> 
My laptop is a year old now.  The CPU is:
Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU T9550  @ 2.66GHz
with 4 GiB of RAM.

I would recommend using Virtualbox.  If you do not need USB support
(beyond keyboard and mouse) the Virtualbox OSE edition that is packaged
for most distros is more than capable (very easy to install in Ubuntu).

> For eg. it says here
> http://ark.intel.com/ProductCollection.aspx?familyId=43483
> 
> that i3 series (and up) mobile procs support VT-x hardware virtualization.

They should, but given the plethora of CPU models, definitely check the
Intel web site before buying.

> 
> As well while T6600 does not support VT-x, T6670 does.

This can be a bit of a nightmare to navigate through.  There are so many
models with similar numbers but very different features.
> 
> Thanks again for your talk. Your efforts and insight are truly
> appreciated and valuable.

Glad you found it useful and or interesting.


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