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Posted: **Thu Jul 26, 2007 5:29 am**

I have a T60 1951-CTO which supports hardware virtualization.

I want to run Linux SUSE 10 as a virtual machine. What do I need to make this work? A couple of years ago I used a program called VirtialMachine, I think that’s what it was called, which worked fine but that was pure software.
I’m guessing I need something different to take advantage of the hardware virtualization.

Many thanks for any help.

Posted: **Thu Jul 26, 2007 6:26 am**

The only special thing that hardware virtualization will get you right now is the ability to run 64-bit OS in a virtual machine. Most (all?) current virtualization software will support this.

Posted: **Thu Jul 26, 2007 6:38 am**

So are there no speed advantages with using hardware virtulization?

Posted: **Thu Jul 26, 2007 7:23 am**

Near as I can tell, Hardware-assisted virtualization is being utilized by Virtualization Software

One example is this White Paper from Parallels (Though they are getting the most press for running Windows under OSX):
http://www.parallels.com/files/upload/P ... _Paper.pdf
They also produce products for Virtuliztion under Windows. I suspect you can find similar information at VMWare's site

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