Heads up re VM's & Intel 64bit Processors

[Liam Proven]

On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 6:42 AM, Dedhi Sujatmiko
<sujatmiko.dedhi at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Saturday 20,March,2010 12:01 PM, NoOp wrote:
>> 64bit guest if the system has VT-x. So I look in BIOS&  can't find an
>> option for VT-x (virtualization).
>>
>>
>> Next stop; ark.intel.com&  what do I find... the T4300 is indeed a 64bit
>> processor, *but* it doesn't support VT-x or Hyperthreading!
>>
>
> Those are the two reasons why I keep my virtualization laptop for work
> travel always an Athlon 64X2 based one.
> Because buying the Intel one having the risk of either the processor
> does not support VT-x or there is no option to enable it in the BIOS.
>
> However I consider myself quite lucky when I was given a Fujitsu S6520.
> Initially it cannot enable the BIOS, but after BIOS upgrade, then I can
> enable the VT-x.

Sadly no guarantee. My desktop is an AMD - Athlon X2 64 4400+, one of
the last, best, fastest Socket 939 chips there were. The CPU supports
AMD-V but there is no option to enable it in the BIOS so VirtualBox
has to do without.

The BIOS is the latest one & as it's a 5YO motherboard, I expect no
further upgrades. I had to upgrade it when I got it a few months back
just to get the M/B to recognise 4GB of RAM - its ~2006/2007 BIOS only
saw 3¼GB, i.e., the 32-bit ceiling.


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