On 09/28/2009 09:58 AM, Lloyd Kvam wrote: > I was hoping to get myself a laptop where I could simply try VMMs > without having to cross-check my cpuflags against the hardware > requirements of each VMM.
The Macbook lines are pretty good in this respect. My about-to-be-sold 2006 MBP has been doing hw-virt for a couple years. One of the situations where the "yes, but they use better components" argument is actually true. Fedora 11 broke EFI-compatible installs, F12 may get it back if it's feature complete by yesterday (didn't check). KVM is pretty nice if you have the hardware - on a Core2Quad with the Redhat VirtIO drivers, Vista is pretty usable: http://blog.bfccomputing.com/articles/2009/09/14/converting-a-windows-vista-kvm-virtual-machine-to-redhat-virtio-drivers But 'small' things like sound, live snapshots, etc. are still very missing. Xen PV is good for all-free solutions but is just now catching up with kernels that aren't 3-years old, non-KVM-Qemu is slow, VirtualBox is nice, and I agree, VMWare Server 2 is a total turkey (I've used it forever, and switched to KVM because of v2). -Bill -- Bill McGonigle, Owner BFC Computing, LLC http://bfccomputing.com/ Telephone: +1.603.448.4440 Email, IM, VOIP: b...@bfccomputing.com VCard: http://bfccomputing.com/vcard/bill.vcf Social networks: bill_mcgonigle/bill.mcgonigle _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/