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Laptops and hardware virtualization



On 02/14/2010 05:32 PM, Scott Ehrlich wrote:
> What is the desired end result? As I learned from this list, among
> others, the VT support in BIOS only appears to affect the ability of
> the system to run a 64-bit VM. Am I missing something else? Was there
> something in the original question of the OP I lost track of?
One of the issue is being able to run 64-bit VM, but the other is
performance. Basically, you do not need the virtualization support in
the chips to virtualize. VMWare has been doing it for years.

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