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Re: VM Ware Player under Debian Lenny AMD64 on laptop



Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 10:48:22PM +0400, James Brown wrote:
>   
>> Is it possible install on qemu Windows? It seems to me that only Linux,
>> am I wrong?
>> Does it maintain booting from raw disks and using USB?
>>     
>
> kvm and qemu both support pretty much the same features (kvm uses qemu
> as it's user interface).  kqemu is a kernel module to allow qemu to do
> pretty much what vmware does for virtual machines, while kvm does the
> same thing using the hardware virtualization features (and hence faster
> and more efficiently).
>
>   
>> $ cat /proc/cpuinfo
>> processor : 0
>> vendor_id : GenuineIntel
>> cpu family : 6
>> model : 15
>> model name : Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU T5500 @ 1.66GHz
>>     
>
> Well unfortunately, the T5600 and up has VT, the T5500 does not (unless
> it is the one stepping that accidentally had VT support enabled, but that
> was stepping 2 and you have stepping 6).  Intel really isn't helping to
> make this less confusing.  They like to turn off features on low end
> chips for no good reason other than they can.
>
>   
And hear http://ark.intel.com/Product.aspx?id=27253 they wrote that
T5500 supportes VT
Are they, intel team, idiots, if they write one in one place, and
another - in another place?!


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