<div dir="ltr"><div><div>there are several ways to test it first check the bios and often I find it has been turned off by default<br></div>on linux or even a live version run in as terminal <code># grep --color vmx /proc/cpuinfo<br>
</code></div><code>I assume there is a windows program/tool to test it also but I have never tried that<br></code><div><div><div><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>
<a href="http://www.intel.com/support/processors/sb/cs-030729.htm">http://www.intel.com/support/processors/sb/cs-030729.htm</a><br></div><div>todd<br></div></div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On Fri, Aug 1, 2014 at 10:50 AM, <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:techlists@phpcoderusa.com" target="_blank">techlists@phpcoderusa.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Thanks!!<br>
<br>
I did notice a foot note on this page : <a href="http://ark.intel.com/products/81018/Intel-Core-i3-4030U-Processor-3M-Cache-1_90-GHz" target="_blank">http://ark.intel.com/products/<u></u>81018/Intel-Core-i3-4030U-<u></u>Processor-3M-Cache-1_90-GHz</a> that says "‡ This feature may not be available on all computing systems. Please check with the system vendor to determine if your system delivers this feature, or reference the system specifications (motherboard, processor, chipset, power supply, HDD, graphics controller, memory, BIOS, drivers, virtual machine monitor-VMM, platform software, and/or operating system) for feature compatibility. Functionality, performance, and other benefits of this feature may vary depending on system configuration.".<br>
<br>
Foot noted for this particular one is the visualization and hyper-threading. Is there a way to test the laptop to ensure these CPU features are available?<br>
<br>
Thanks!!<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
On 2014-08-01 12:43, Todd Cole wrote:<br>
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I have a Lenovo with similar specifications that we will be using as a<br>
demo at the installfest Saturday<br>
it is currently running 14.04 host duel booted with windows and<br>
several linux guests and windows guests in virtualbox. Feel free to<br>
stop by and play with it. current software tools make it easy to<br>
convert a hardware os to a Virtual guest. Todd<br>
<br>
On Fri, Aug 1, 2014 at 9:45 AM, <<a href="mailto:techlists@phpcoderusa.com" target="_blank">techlists@phpcoderusa.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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Hi,<br>
<br>
I'm pondering buying a Dell laptop with an Intel Core i3-4030U<br>
processor and 4GB of DDR3, 1600MHz RAM.<br>
<br>
Benchmark seems decent :<br>
<br>
</blockquote>
<a href="http://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=Intel+Core+i3-4030U+%40+1.90GHz" target="_blank">http://www.cpubenchmark.net/<u></u>cpu.php?cpu=Intel+Core+i3-<u></u>4030U+%40+1.90GHz</a><br>
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[1]<br>
<br>
CPU seems rather good :<br>
<br>
</blockquote>
<a href="http://ark.intel.com/products/81018/Intel-Core-i3-4030U-Processor-3M-Cache-1_90-GHz" target="_blank">http://ark.intel.com/<u></u>products/81018/Intel-Core-i3-<u></u>4030U-Processor-3M-Cache-1_90-<u></u>GHz</a><br>
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[2]<br>
<br>
I would like to load Linux on it to use it as a LAMP development<br>
box. Most of my work is custom PHP, however I may need to spend<br>
some time with Drupal which is a resource hog. It is my hope<br>
running local-host would mitigate some of the Drupal issues.<br>
<br>
I might want to use it to edit videos and potentially images.<br>
<br>
I was thinking of using a Modern IE<br>
<a href="https://www.modern.ie/en-us/virtualization-tools" target="_blank">https://www.modern.ie/en-us/<u></u>virtualization-tools</a> [3] in a Virtual<br>
Box <a href="https://www.virtualbox.org/" target="_blank">https://www.virtualbox.org/</a> [4] so I can have Internet Explorer<br>
for testing.<br>
<br>
I don't think I will need any other Windows software, or at least<br>
that is my hope.<br>
<br>
I have not done something like this before so I thought I would ask<br>
the experts. Is my approach solid or is there something I am<br>
missing or should consider?<br>
<br>
Thanks in advance,<br>
Keith<br>
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