[Wylug-discuss] Cheap Virtualisation-Capable Laptop

Stephen Patterson steve at patter.mine.nu
Sun Jul 20 23:33:17 BST 2008


On 20 Jul 08, James Holden (wylug at jamesholden.net) wrote:
> I frequently use Virtualbox for the odd bit of IE CSS testing, and so
> that Mrs H can watch ITVs miserable attempts at VOD.
> 
> It seems to perform quite well, and none of my machines do the fancy
> hardware virtualisation - they're all quite ancient really.

I've found qemu (with the qemu kernel modules loaded) quite reasonable
on a T41 thinkpad and a random intel box at work.

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