hardware virtualisation

[brian15]

Hi i would like list of ibm thinkpads that support hardware virtualisation

[jdhurst]

Go to the Lenovo site and check a few models and search there. You should invest just a wee bit of work on your part prior to asking this question. ... JDH

[teetee]

I think the better bet to get this info is by visiting Wikipedia and Intel's websites. They have nice tables which you can locate the CPUs that supports VT technology. I didn't check out AMD's pacifica because my boss is somewhat biased (or I should say that he was trying to be on the safe side since the machine is going to be a mission critical server and we are both newbies to thi).

I guess what I am trying to say is that the hardware virtualization depends solely on the type of CPU. For Intel CPUs one would need to get E6xxx and above and the new Xeons to support VT.

I forgot to mention/ask which kind of vt package you are planning to run. I only checked out Xen to run the un-modified guest OS and the above info is what I got. Xen 3.04 runs pretty well on RHEL5 after they update the mouse sync problem on v3.00/3.02 and the guest OS is pretty usable. I've tried running another RHEL5, a windows2003 server, two windows 2000 server as guest OSes and they all run well on the host(RHEL5) at the same time. The machine we bought was a Dell PowerEdge SC1430 with two Duo Core Xeon and 4GB of Ram on it.

After you do all the search, then you can find out the ThinkPad models that has the CPU which support VT.

Just my .02.

[brian15]

The software that i would probably use is KVM and maybe xen.