[mythtv-users] Virtualisation in the home network – ready for mainstream?

[Jarod Wilson]

On 09/02/2009 08:17 PM, Johnny wrote:
>>> Its pretty much "hit" even with almost all recent desktops and laptops
>>> I've seen, save those with atom procs. I have around ten machines between
>>> home and the office w/hw virt extensions, only two of which are
>>> server-class.
>>
>> Yep. I didn't want to get into the atom and other 'power saving' cpus. If I
>> said,<  3 years old you are probably good, I would have heard about it ;)
>
> I checked and things are worse than I thought in this regard with
> Intel. Even some of the brand new Core2 Quads don't have hardware
> virtualization (http://blogs.zdnet.com/Bott/?p=946&page=2). If you
> care about this feature you better check carefully before you buy a
> specific Intel chip. Don't just assume that because it is new and fast
> that it has hardware virtualization.

Ugh, bonghits, wasn't aware it had gotten that bad. Fortunately, I don't 
have to buy much of anything, its all provided by hardware vendors, who 
tend to not send their low-end cheap crap our way.

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Jarod Wilson