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Re: [Xen-users] VT laptop anyone?

To: Nick Craig-Wood <nick@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-users] VT laptop anyone?
From: Joe Ammond <joe.ammond@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2006 12:27:04 -0600
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On Wed, 2006-01-11 at 16:41 +0000, Nick Craig-Wood wrote:
> According to
> 
> http://www.intel.com/products/processor_number/proc_info_table.pdf
> 
> All the duo processors have VT support.
> 
> There is a note attached which says this:
> 
>     Intel Virtualization Technology requires a computer system with a
>     processor, chipset, BIOS, virtual machine monitor (VMM) and for
>     some uses, certain platform software, enabled for
>     it. Functionality, performance or other benefit will vary
>     depending on hardware and software configurations. Intel
>     Virtualization Technology-enabled VMM applications are currently
>     in development.
> 
> Thats quite a lot of qualifications... BIOS being the major one probably.

So hypothetically, if I have a duo processor, and the BIOS has
'Virtualization Technology = ENABLED', and 'cat /proc/cpuinfo'
has a 'vmx' flag, I'm good to go firing up a VT-enabled Xen 
domain.

Are there any quick docs explaining how to set one up?



ja.
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Joe Ammond                                  joe.ammond@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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