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

[Dave Fisher]

On 15 December 2011 10:47, Nigel Metheringham <nigel at dotdot.it> wrote:
> On 15 Dec 2011, at 10:36, Dave Fisher wrote:
>> Because low-cost Intel chips don't include support for virtualisation?
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> 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).

Thanks Nigel, that's good to know.

Previous (unpleasant) experience with non-VMWare options some years
ago, led me to believe that the performance hit without hardware
support was unacceptable.