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

[Jarod Wilson]

On Sep 2, 2009, at 5:07 PM, Greg Woods wrote:

> On Wed, 2009-09-02 at 12:13 -0400, Jarod Wilson wrote:
>> lsmod |grep kvm
>
> On the work system where things are good, the output is:
>
> kvm_intel              39696  3
> kvm                   128388  1 kvm_intel
>
>
> When I get home tonight, I'll check the Pentium 4 machine. Am I  
> correct
> in assuming that if the machine isn't already using KVM, there's no  
> way
> to make it do so because the hardware support it needs is lacking?

Its possible hw virt extensions are shut off in the bios.

> If so, will VirtualBox still be usable on such a machine?


VirtualBox doesn't rely on the hardware virt extensions, so it should  
certainly run. How usable it is on your specific machine, I couldn't  
say. Its perfectly usable on a dual 2.6GHz opteron machine I have here  
though.

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Jarod Wilson
jarod at wilsonet.com