Re: The Acer's notebooks don't suppot vt at all
On Tuesday 28 July 2009 09:26:27 am James Brown wrote:
> When I tried to install and to rum the kvm on my Acer TravelMate3043WTMi
> (under Debian Lenny AMD64) the system told me that I needed to have
> vt-support in my CPU and/or enable it in my BIOS.
> I tried to find whether my CPU Intel T5500 supported this feature or not
> I didn't resolve this matter becouse in some pages of the Intel site
> written that "yes" and in some another - "no".
> Some people told me here that from their practical experience not all
> CPU Intel T5500 supports this feeature, perhaps only T5500 stepping 2.
> I emailed to the Acer technical support asking whether my CPU suppots vt
> or not and they answered me that all Acer's notebook don't support this
> feature independently from CPU's supporting and it is impossible to
> enable this function in the Acer's notebooks BIOSes.
This seems to be an issue only with this T5500 CPU.
I got an Acer Aspire 4520 with AMD Turion 64 and VT (well, AMD's
virtualization features) are on and I can run kvm just fine on this laptop.
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