[Wylug-discuss] advice on ebook reader or similar...

[Nigel Metheringham]

On 15 Dec 2011, at 10:36, Dave Fisher wrote:

> On 15 December 2011 10:33, John Hodrien <J.H.Hodrien at leeds.ac.uk> wrote:
>> On Thu, 15 Dec 2011, Dave Fisher wrote:
>>> Virtualisation is not really an option on low-spec intel kit. Maybe on
>>> AMD.
>> 
>> You've lost me.  Why would there be an AMD vs Intel difference with when it
>> was sane to virtualise?
> 
> Because low-cost Intel chips don't include support for virtualisation?
> 
> I read that all AMD chips do, but have not been able to confirm 100%
> cos the AMD website is utter shite.


You can virtualise without CPU hardware virt support - you just take
a performance hit (a few % on VMware), and lose the ability to virtualise
a system which has a contained virtual machine (and its turtles all
the way down).

	Nigel.
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