[geeks] fastest AMD socket 939 and 940 processors

Bill Bradford mrbill at mrbill.net
Thu Mar 12 09:20:36 CDT 2009


On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 10:05:20AM -0400, Joshua Boyd wrote:
> VMWare claims that VT-x isn't always the fastest mode for their software
> anyway. I believe VT-x is mainly needed when running 64bit guests.  I
> believe that VT-x support is required for KVM to function though.  I
> don't know about xvm.

Yes - you definitely have to have VT-x for 64-bit guests, as I've
discovered that HP ships it *off by default* in both desktops at
workstations.

You have to go into the BIOS to turn it on....

Bill

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Bill Bradford 
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