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Re: [LUG] XEN virtualization expertise?

 

On Wed, 2010-06-09 at 16:58 +0100, Rob Beard wrote:
> On 09/06/10 15:50, Dan Dart wrote:
>
> > In general, new P4s and above and Athlon 64s and above will have virtualisation.
> >
> > See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86_virtualization
> >
>
> Actually that's not always the case!
>
And sometimes it's even worse. We have hardware here where the processor
supports it but the BIOS has no option to switch it on, so it doesn't
work.

I think this is a problem limited to desktop class machines but it's
still damn annoying.


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