Heads up re VM's & Intel 64bit Processors

[NoOp]

On 03/20/2010 11:41 AM, Liam Proven wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 6:23 PM, NoOp <snipped> wrote:
...
>> http://communities.vmware.com/docs/DOC-8978
>> [Verifying that Intel VT-x is Enabled and Locked at Boot]
>>  Attachments:
>>    * vt.iso (538.0 K)
>> (bottom of the article)
> 
> Unfortunately, "going shopping" is not an option. I can't afford any
> new kit. This machine was given to me, dead, by a friend; I merely
> fixed it up by replacing hard disks & optical drives from my spares
> pile, graphics card from a different friend, RAM from my old PC, and a
> new heatsink & fan from eBay.
> 
> I'm lumbered with it, as it were. I'm very grateful for it - it's
> dramatically more powerful than my old machine - but I need to work
> around its limitations as-is.
> 
> If VT is something that can be enabled or disabled by the system BIOS,
> it seems a little odd to me that it can't be re-enabled or patched
> around somehow in software, but that seems to be just how it is.
> 

It gets even more interesting:
<http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=1003945>

Note that even AMD64 processors have issues.

But I reckon that we're now wandering into 'sounder' territory :-)