<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VirtualBox">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VirtualBox</a> (look at the hardware virtualization section)<br><br><a href="http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/linux-xen-vmware-kvm-intel-vt-amd-v-support/">http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/linux-xen-vmware-kvm-intel-vt-amd-v-support/</a><br>
<br><a href="http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/linux/linux-tip-how-to-tell-if-your-processor-supports-vt/">http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/linux/linux-tip-how-to-tell-if-your-processor-supports-vt/</a><br><br><a href="https://access.redhat.com/knowledge/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/html/Virtualization_Administration_Guide/sect-Virtualization-Troubleshooting-Enabling_Intel_VT_and_AMD_V_virtualization_hardware_extensions_in_BIOS.html">https://access.redhat.com/knowledge/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/html/Virtualization_Administration_Guide/sect-Virtualization-Troubleshooting-Enabling_Intel_VT_and_AMD_V_virtualization_hardware_extensions_in_BIOS.html</a><br>
<br><a href="http://www.webupd8.org/2010/07/how-to-find-out-if-your-cpu-supports.html">http://www.webupd8.org/2010/07/how-to-find-out-if-your-cpu-supports.html</a><br><br>Hope that is SOME help though I guess you don't have that processor yet<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 1:50 PM, Nathan England <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:nathan@nmecs.com" target="_blank">nathan@nmecs.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">So many of you offered opinions and experiences with AMD processors in response to a comment I made that I am really intrigued now.</p>

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<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">This may be a separate thread discussion but I use VirtualBox as my virtualization software of choice. Good or bad I use it and want to continue using it.</p>

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<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">I appreciate that Intel has two extensions they list for their processors of VT-x and VT-d. I much prefer processors that support these extensions compared to others that do not.</p>

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<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">Considering my current primary server is running a Pentium M 1.6 anything today would be faster. I do not use any virtualization on this machine, but with the need to upgrade it I would like to offload some of my virtualization needs to this machine as well. I looked at various processors on the AMD site but I cannot find more than a generic line that says XX processors has AMD Virtualization... blah blah</p>

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<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">What extensions should I look for in a AMD processor for decent virtualization?</p>
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<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">Does AMD have any budget processors that have these extensions? </p>
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<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">I appreciate your input...</p>
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<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">P.S. I would love to read a discussion about various virtualization softwares and your uses, but in a different thread. I prefer VBox because it is free (price) and has a better interface than libvirt or whatever Fedora prefers and occasionally I will load up a VBox image in Windows where it works and acts the same as my linux versions, once I change the network card.</p>

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