Virtualization in X200s

[masterus]

hello every1,

am not sure what next ThinkPad should I buy.so need your answer for that question:
does X200s with processor SL9400 support virtualization
am pretty sure that X300 and X301 do..but if am wrong please let me know
thanx for all replies

thx&rgds,

[aau007]

I installed the Microsoft Virtual PC to run Vista and W7 as virtual. Make sure you go to the BIOS and turn on hardware virtualization for best performance.

[masterus]

hi aau007,

on what ThinkPad you did it

thx&rgds

[aau007]

x200s with sl9400 processor. I have a vhd with W7 and XPP. W7 is for playing with the new OS and XPPs is for connecting to different networks I manage. I create a basic standalone xpp vhd and make a backup copy. Then use one to connect to different networks for testing. After I finish, I replace it with the original base copy and start over when I need to test different configs.

[maciejs]

Hiya,

I went a little bit further. I managed to get XP, Vista and Windows 7 (one of the previous betas) running at the same time in Virtualbox (linux host). In all fairness Virtualbox was the only thing running at that time and there was nothing opened in neither of guest OSes but the whole thing while not perfectly smooth was very usable (browsing files, navigating menus etc). It looked very cool with Compiz's cube... (-;

Normally I have one VM opened most of the time and a lot of other applications on host OS and it all works fine. I'm on X200s with SL9400 and 4GB of RAM, running Jaunty 64bit.