On Mon, 2009-09-28 at 11:01 -0400, Ben Scott wrote:
> But I will make this general observation: The processor does not
> exist in a vacuum. A working computer is a system, of which the
> processor is but one part. If one needs/wants virtualization but one
> is shopping solely by processor, I woul
On 09/28/2009 01:49 PM, Lloyd Kvam wrote:
> But shopping for virtualization in a laptop seems to be pretty hopeless.
> I could not find any mention of virtualization in any of the laptop spec
> pages. I tried to use the Dell sale support service. The Dell folks
> supplied a laptop spec with an In
I guess a couple of more things is what you want to use virtualization
for. On my laptop it is almost purely for demo purposes, although I
initially set it up to run some things that could not be done under
Linux, even through WINE. Initially, I needed RealPlayer for my wife,
but RealPlayer Superpa
On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 2:49 PM, Jerry Feldman wrote:
> I guess a couple of more things is what you want to use virtualization
> for. On my laptop it is almost purely for demo purposes, although I
>
Definitely. For example, Sun has defined 4 different ways to do
virtualization on SPARC Solaris.
Jerry Feldman wrote:
> I guess a couple of more things is what you want to use virtualization
> for. On my laptop it is almost purely for demo purposes, although I
> initially set it up to run some things that could not be done under
> Linux, even through WINE. Initially, I needed RealPlayer for my
On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 1:49 PM, Lloyd Kvam wrote:
> But shopping for virtualization in a laptop seems to be pretty hopeless.
I wish I could say I was surprised. In general, I find most vendors
are incompetent at the "consumer" level. To get real vendor support,
you have to seek products whic
