Laptop CPUs that support VT extensions?

[VirtualLarry]

I'm trying to figure out how I can virtualize my multi-boot desktop, with Win98se, W2K, and XP, using a laptop with Windows 7.

Apparently, I need Win7 Professional, and then I can install VPC 7, but that requires VT support on the CPU.

I have about 4 laptops, but I'm not sure if any of them have VT support. The only one that I think might, has a C2D 1.6Ghz dual-core, but it has the crappy GMA950 graphics, of which Intel has yet to release a decent video driver for. (Current WDDM 1.0 pre-release driver causes screen flashing while browsing the web. Netbook owners that use this chipset and Win7 also complain about this. Intel really dropped the ball on supporting that chipset in Win7.)

So I'm thinking, perhaps I should sell all of my laptops, or all but one, and purchase an Arrandale-based laptop in the spring.

Does anyone know if the upcoming laptop chips from Intel support virtualization?

 

[Mday]

Go to this page on Intel's site:
http://www.intel.com/products/processor/core2duo/mobile/tools.htm

Download the Intel Processor Ident. Utility. The utility will let you know what technologies are built into your processor on the CPU Technologies tab, when you run the program.

Also, I am pretty sure no company has added a C2D processor to a netbook.

 

[mutz]

http://ark.intel.com/VTList.aspx

this might be useful as well.

 

[VirtualLarry]

http://ark.intel.com/VTList.aspx

this might be useful as well.

What a confusing list. Thanks. Looks like Intel rather haphazardly enabled VT for a small number of CPUs in various categories. Too bad Intel didn't enable them for all of their CPUs, that would have made their CPUs more popular.

None of my current laptops support VT then.

Of course, that list doesn't include the i3s, nor the mobile i5s or i3s, which is the info I really wanted.

 

[mutz]

http://www.virtualization.info/2009/07/intel-core-i3-and-i5-750s-will-not-have.html

I3 should support VT, though they would not support VT-d for what ever that means.

mobiles should support VT as well.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_future_Intel_microprocessors#Mobile_Processors

http://pc.watch.impress.co.jp/img/pcw/docs/302/169/html/kaigai4.jpg.html

highly confidential .

 

[theevilsharpie]

Use VMware Player. It doesn't require VT to function.

 

[VirtualLarry]

http://www.virtualization.info/2009/07/intel-core-i3-and-i5-750s-will-not-have.html

I3 should support VT, though they would not support VT-d for what ever that means.

Great, just great. Intel cripples their laptop chips, again.

Why wouldn't they expect that SOME OF US WANT TO RUN VPC/XP-MODE, on an LAPTOP?

Why do they think virtualization is desktop-only? Just like they are crippling their Atom chips for netbooks, disabling EMT64, etc.

I hope the FTC really sticks it to them.

When the monopoly producer gets to produce only what it wants to sell, instead of what is actually demanded by consumers, then competition is dead in that market, and the Federal Govt needs to step in and try its best to restore some semblance of competition.

I just can't believe that VT-d is actually physically missing from those chips, just like SSE4.1 is disabled on the E5200 dies, but not missing AFAIK.

Edit: Misplaced rant, I mistakenly read the title of that article as "Core i3 and i5 will not have VT-d. Apparently, it's only the lowest-end i5 that lacks it, the higher-end i5s WILL have VT-d. So all is not lost, it will just cost me a bit more for my dream laptop. I'll live.

Edit: After re-reading, it appears that those charts are all for the desktop CPUs, not the mobile ones. So it still remains to be seen what Intel will do with them. I hope that they will allow Mobile Core i5s with VT-d for purchase.

 

[mutz]

Use VMware Player. It doesn't require VT to function.

it seems as if the OP IS looking for HW VT,

older tests from 2006 showed advantage for SW virtualization when more recent ones are showing a better score for the HW.
http://ezjd.blogspot.com/2009/08/virtualbox-vs-vmware-server-vs-kvm-part.html

 

[sciwizam]

Use VMware Player. It doesn't require VT to function.

Same with VirtualBox from Sun, iirc.

 

[mutz]

Great, just great. Intel cripples their laptop chips, again.

Why wouldn't they expect that SOME OF US WANT TO RUN VPC/XP-MODE, on an LAPTOP?

Why do they think virtualization is desktop-only? Just like they are crippling their Atom chips for netbooks, disabling EMT64, etc.

it says both mobile I5 and I7 should support it,
both of these laptop chips should handle VT-x/d,
only the I3 desktop and the I5/750 should not support it..
http://pc.watch.impress.co.jp/img/pc...igai4.jpg.html

your fixed .

AMD's.

http://forums.amd.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=34&threadid=119942

 

[VirtualLarry]

http://forums.amd.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=34&threadid=119942

No for AMD, it is simple all their Processors after AMD-V was introduced have Virtualisation.
Only SEMPRONS do not have virtualisation.
There is a problem with their Website, tell AMD to fire the webmaster.

hmm

 

[mutz]

Same with VirtualBox from Sun, iirc.

this one^ rather, is free .

hmm

they miss specifications,
they said to be having AMD-V since barcelona in 2006, enabling EPT at 2007.

 

[Fox5]

Yeah, pretty sure all AMD processors have virtualization extensions. (except the semprons, and even that I'm not sure of)

 

[VirtualLarry]

Well, as it turns out, my AMD TF-20 laptop does support AMD-V after all. I had to update the BIOS. So I don't need to wait for a mobile Core i5 laptop.

 

[mutz]

told u larry,
edited the post at the second thread,
sorry, got it all wrong,
added u with specifications link taken from CPU-WORLD,
for when ever you'll need it.