[Tfug] Virtualbox

[Steve B]

I did not buy the rig for the sole purpose of doing virtualization. My
intent was to buy or build a new machine, but a friend found me a good deal
on "corporate grade" workstation at a good price. The reason that it was
such a good deal is that the IT dept downgraded the machine before selling
it to me. Rather than setup another dual boot system I thought I might try
virtualization instead. I'm not set on Virtualbox, in fact I'll probably try
it along with KVM and Xen before I decide if its the right decision for me.
As part of my research I thought I'd ask for feedback from a few different
sources.

On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 10:07 AM, Jim March <1.jim.march at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 9:48 AM, Steve B <steveb7 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Mine is the e5200 and the spec sheet (
>> http://ark.intel.com/Product.aspx?id=37212) says it has the 64bit
>> instruction set, VT-x is not present.
>
>
> Yeah, and that's why we check before buying a new rig.
>
> If you don't have hardware virt, your SOLE choice for virtualization is
> VirtualBox and...it's actually not the best.  It's the *easiest*, yeah, but
> it's not as stable as some other solutions.
>
> There's a lot of KILLER deals out there in corporate-grade laptops about 3
> to 4 years old...but Intel was doing some damned funky things here and there
> with some CPUs.
>
> It looks like in most cases they considered 64bit more critical than VT-x.
> The only exception I've notices are the T2400/T2500/T2600 - and anything
> with a "50" at the end is different!
>
> Jim
>
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