[ale] Fully functional desktop [Was: Greetings and introduction]

[Greg Freemyer]

On 4/20/06, Barlow, Jim D <jim.d.barlow at intel.com> wrote:
> Greg,
>
> The extent of the mother board support required is just the firmware flag for turning VT on.   You'll just need to verify that there is a BIOS with the capability for your motherboard.   Since VT version one does not allow physical I/O to be dedicated to a VM, there is no "chipset" support needed -- other than that BIOS capability.
>
> As an example, VT support claim was not allowed for the Paxville MP that had the transistors  until the BIOS revisions were out (Q4 '05) and Xen 3.0 and/or VMWare Server was out with support for the feature. It is required that a "stack" be available to claim VT support.   That is why the footnote is so long.
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> - Jim

Do you know where I can find a list of VT supporting BIOSes (and MBs)?

I'd love to experiment with this stuff.

Greg
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Greg Freemyer
The Norcross Group
Forensics for the 21st Century