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

[John Clarke]

One other question - what make and model is your laptop?

For the record I have an Intel desktop mobo with a x3220 (xeon version 
of a q6600 consumer cpu) that has vt-x support. My foray into vm land is 
limited to xen on centos 5.
To now I have not used VirtualBox but will do so as you recommend.

Thanks very much for the tips Gustin.

cheers, John

Gustin Johnson wrote:
> 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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