Virtualization Technology

[Cheex]

Does the lack of Virtualization Technology prevent me from running virtual PCs on my machine??

 

[Twsmit]

No. However you will miss out on the hardware acceleration that will give a slight speed boost if you run VMs. I personally wouldn't worry about it unless you are going to be doing a large amount of work in a VM environment. Maybe someone who has a VT enabled machine and uses VMs can provide some more clarity...

 

[Cheex]

I was mainly thinking of running XP to play Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory which just absolutely does NOT run on Vista.
Also, I'd use a VM to test out Linux and yada yada...

How is it for a game if I 'donate' enough memory to it??

 

[Dadofamunky]

At some point I want to do the same thing - run an instance of Linux in one and possibly my license of XP in another. It's one reason why I set things up with 8 GB. But for now, it just seems like a massive amount of work!

 

[nyker96]

Originally posted by: Cheex
I was mainly thinking of running XP to play Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory which just absolutely does NOT run on Vista.
Also, I'd use a VM to test out Linux and yada yada...

How is it for a game if I 'donate' enough memory to it??

I use virtualbox to do VM work. my E7200 doesn't have hardware acceleration but can handle WInXP/Vista/Ubuntu no problem. However, if you want to play games, you better just install a physical instance of win xp, no virtual machine is geared up for gaming. you will find gaming performance too slow even on a hardware accelerated VM.

 

[aka1nas]

It sounds like this will not affect you, but the other downside to lack of VT is that you cannot run Hyper-V with such a CPU.

 

[geokilla]

I want to use VMware to run F@H on my rig in sig. However, E7200 doesn't support Virtualization so that kinda killed the idea. Plus, I was told that because of the nature of Windows XP, SMP + GPU folding in XP results in a significant slow down for GPU folding.