[OT?] a viable laptop for exploring virtualization on f11?

Peter Robinson pbrobinson at gmail.com
Sun Apr 5 10:49:17 UTC 2009


>  at the moment, my laptops aren't adequate.  one is merely 32-bit
> with PAE, while the others are 64-bit AMD but without the AMD-V
> virtualization extensions; hence, no possibility of experimenting with
> KVM (right?)

All the current Intel Centrino platforms have support for the intel
extensions. I find the penryn processors very good and have run up to
3-4 virt machines on my Dell D630. It has a T9300 processor which has
6 meg cache (not sure how useful that is for virt) but I would
recommend lots of RAM, and a 7200 RPM HDD.

> p.s.  is there, in fact, a separate mailing list for discussion of
> virtualization on fedora for non-experts?  that would be *so* cool.

Well there's fedora-virt [1] but I would suggest the usual
fedora-[users|test|devel] lists are also a useful place to discuss
virt, as long as its on topic with the particular list. fedora-users
may be relevant for non-experts stuff, or maybe -test if your testing
new stuff etc.

Peter

[1] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-virt




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