FYI, a friend of mine who's Our Sort (IT professional) has a Drobo at home,
and had a few things to say about it:
1) It rocks, especially lately when he's been experiencing regular
brownouts.
2) It's Linux underneath the shiny custom box, and not difficult to get ssh,
Perl, and userland NFS running
On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 7:59 PM, Thomas Charron wrote:
> Intel's VT-x extensions *MUST* be enabled and supported by BIOS.
> I'm not sure why ...
I seem to recall this facet of the design being sold as a security
feature. The scenario given was the entire nominal installed OS
running inside a
On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 7:59 PM, Thomas Charron wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 7:36 PM, Michael ODonnell
> wrote:
>> Not certain I understand what you're saying but processors in this family
>> come out of their power-on Reset state in their simplest, least capable
>> mode - interrupts disabled
On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 7:36 PM, Michael ODonnell
wrote:
> Not certain I understand what you're saying but processors in this family
> come out of their power-on Reset state in their simplest, least capable
> mode - interrupts disabled, MMU disabled, 20bit Real Mode addressing,
> etc - and each in
>> So if VM support is enabled by flipping some bit(s) in some CPU
>> Control Register(s) I'd assume that a VM-capable OS could flip those
>> bits as well as any BIOS code. I suppose it's possible that the CPU
>> might first insist on seeing a certain logic level on a certain input
>> pin befor
On Sun, 2009-09-27 at 12:43 -0400, Michael ODonnell wrote:
> So if VM support is enabled by flipping some bit(s) in some CPU
> Control Register(s) I'd assume that a VM-capable OS could flip those
> bits as well as any BIOS code. I suppose it's possible that the CPU
> might first insist on seeing a
I have fairly deep OS-level experience (including some Virtual Machine
work) but I confess that I'm not up on the very latest VM technology
so to further the discussion let me ask something that may also have
occurred to others:
What is it in the nature of VM support in these processors (or
Lloyd Kvam wrote:
> http://ark.intel.com/Product.aspx?id=42014
> claims that the P7550 supports virtualization which I expect to show up
> as vmx in the cpuflags.
>
> I bought a new HP laptop which featured a P7550 processor and expected
> to be able to use KVM. Unfortunately, the vmx flag is not
