[PLUG] Virtual Iron

[alan]

On Thu, 18 Oct 2007, Robert Kopp wrote:

> Recently hardware that is enhanced for virtualization, notably the AMD-V and Intel VT CPUs have emerged. Not all of it is expensive--a Pentium D 920 CPU is about $130 on Ebay.
>
> You can download securable.exe and execute it with WINE to see if you have these capabilities. I don't.
>
> Nevertheless, I use virtual machines, so this technology interests me. Does it enhance the performance of VM's a lot? If so, can someone suggest desktop PC's or components that have this capability?

I plan on buying an AMD64 dual core machine in the next couple of months. 
I have yet to be able to figure out what of the AMD64 processors support 
the hardware virtualization.  (Hopefully it does since that is one of the 
main reasons I am buying a new machine.)

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