[ale] Fully functional desktop [Was: Greetings and introduction]

[Barlow, Jim D]

Here is the best bet, even though it can't possibly be complete.

http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/IntelVT

At the Intel Developer Forum it was announced that VT will be in the 64
bit Next Generation Intel Architecture processors.

- Jim

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From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of Greg
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Freemyer
Sent: Friday, April 21, 2006 5:26 PM
To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
Subject: Re: [ale] Fully functional desktop [Was: Greetings and
introduction]

On 4/20/06, Barlow, Jim D <jim.d.barlow at intel.com> wrote:
> Greg,
>
> The extent of the mother board support required is just the firmware
flag for turning VT on.   You'll just need to verify that there is a
BIOS with the capability for your motherboard.   Since VT version one
does not allow physical I/O to be dedicated to a VM, there is no
"chipset" support needed -- other than that BIOS capability.
>
> As an example, VT support claim was not allowed for the Paxville MP
that had the transistors  until the BIOS revisions were out (Q4 '05) and
Xen 3.0 and/or VMWare Server was out with support for the feature. It is
required that a "stack" be available to claim VT support.   That is why
the footnote is so long.
>
> - Jim

Do you know where I can find a list of VT supporting BIOSes (and MBs)?

I'd love to experiment with this stuff.

Greg
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Greg Freemyer
The Norcross Group
Forensics for the 21st Century
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