On Wednesday, November 16, 2016 at 5:02:36 AM UTC-5, tai...@gmx.com wrote: > I have purchased systems that had just that but the proprietary bios > still did not properly implement the iommu. > > This is considered a "pro" level technology and you are generally SOL if > you buy a consumer level laptop (even some "enterprise" ones) - If you > don't care about ME the best choice would be a dell business (latitude > or precision) laptop with ProSupport so you can get someone on the phone > who speaks english, isn't a moron and is able to escalate problems to > the engineering team in case you have any problems such as bad DMAR tables. > > FYI - "VT-d" is IOMMU with the AMD marketing name of AMD-Vi - it is not > an intel technology. > On 11/15/2016 10:45 PM, raahe...@gmail.com wrote: > > On Tuesday, November 15, 2016 at 7:44:53 PM UTC-5, pixel fairy wrote: > >> On Tuesday, November 15, 2016 at 8:46:51 AM UTC-5, Andrew David Wong wrote: > >>> As far as I'm aware, any laptop with VT-x should be able to handle a > >>> Windows VMs, and in general, most laptops comes with Windows. So, you're > >>> basically just looking for a laptop that has good Qubes compatibility. > >>> Take a look at the following: > >> a sad trend now is laptops that are bios locked to only run windows. > >> > >> id also like to find a vendor that will still give us support and coverage > >> on hardware issues, like ibm did before lenovo took over. > > what I always suggest is to buy one that has a manual to view all the > > specifications. Preferably where you can see bios pictures in the manual. > > And for Qubes I always suggest one where you can see VT-d is enabled in the > > picture. or if it says its enabled by default then you are good to go for > > sure. TO get the full security benefits. > >
this is why you find the picture of it preferably "enabled" in the manual before you buy it. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "qubes-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to qubes-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to qubes-users@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/qubes-users/d3de969f-5f7c-464d-ac69-d1f80808b363%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
