VirtualBox

[Keith Smith]

Dell has been very Linux friendly.  They even sent me a recover disk 
when I told them I was going to put Linux on the box.

Be careful when buying a Dell if you want to run more than one monitor. 
They do not tell you their cards only push one monitor on most models. I 
was surprised......



On 2014-11-14 00:50, Michael Butash wrote:
> Don't buy HP - been there, done that.  Told "linux isn't relevant
> enough to fix a bios bug".  Stopped buying them.
> 
>  Sadly no, vendors (like hp) suck for linux at times and in general,
> might try some of the various grub flags for disabling acpi, if a
> desktop and not sleeping, you're not losing much except maybe some
> power management.  Dell is generally more friendly, but as I
> mentioned not always either.  Anything windoze 8.x-ish is just
> generally more unfriendly/quirky toward linux I find.
> 
>  Thank them when you pay your next microsoft tax on a prebuilt system.
> 
>  -mb
> 
>  On 11/13/2014 11:41 PM, Stephen M wrote:
> 
>> I've tried looking on HP's website and it says I have the latest
>> BIOs.  So unless I look for the specific board I think it's updated
>> right now.  Unless you have suggestions.
>> 
>> On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 6:39 PM, Michael Butash <michael at butash.net>
>> wrote:
>> 
>> I've never had it flip on and off, few times with a new laptop I'll
>> try to start vbox and realize the vt setting is off after a minute
>> of scratching my head, but not revert randomly.
>> 
>> See if there is a bios update too.  Seems no one bothers to make
>> anything right the first time since microsoft perfected the "ship
>> crap and patch later" game.
>> 
>> You want really odd bios, my newest dell laptop after about a month
>> of use with only suspends will start turning itself back on back
>> on.  Even with a poweroff now, I have to literally 5 second
>> poweroff to make it stay down or it'll just start booting again. 
>> Ghost in the shell, or at least acpi functions.
>> 
>> -mb
>> 
>> On 11/13/2014 06:25 PM, Stephen M wrote:
>> 
>> Now I don't think this is very relevant but I also have virtualbox
>> setup on my laptop. I've not had an issue yet like on my desktop. 
>> The difference is that this laptop is a little newer and also I'm
>> not dual booting my laptop.  Other than that they are both setup
>> the same way.
>> 
>> On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 6:23 PM, Stephen M <smelheim85 at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> 
>> My computer is around 5 years old and I don't think there is an app
>> that controls the BIOS that I'm aware of.  The CMOS battery could
>> be an issue because when I looked at the date in the BIOS it wasn't
>> set correctly.  But the date was so I could try that.
>> 
>> On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 3:07 PM, Michael Butash <michael at butash.net>
>> wrote:
>> 
>> Sounds like your bios is resetting - maybe the cmos battery?  The
>> VT bit is a bios setting, really shouldn't change unless you have a
>> os-level app that controls the bios too.  Seems most newer
>> non-basic boards have this now.
>> 
>> -mb
>> 
>> On 11/13/2014 02:52 PM, Stephen M wrote:
>> 
>> It happened the same in 12.04 with 14.04.  I have the latest
>> version of virtualbox which is 4.3.18 and the expansion pack.
>> 
>> If anyone can think of ideas why this might be happening that would
>> be helpful.  But at this time I might have to look for a new
>> computer.
>> 
>> On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 2:51 PM, Stephen M <smelheim85 at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> 
>> Hi all,
>> I'm not sure if someone has already asked this question.  I have a
>> 64 bit host that I have VT enabled in the BIOS.  I can sometime
>> create/run 64 bit guest machines and other times not.  It is
>> usually when I reboot my computer.
>> 
>> I have tried to turn off VT or just having it on.  It will
>> eventually come back though.  This problem has been going on for a
>> while now.  I was on Ubuntu 12.04 but now 14.04 beyond that nothing
>> else changed. 
>> 
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>> Stephen Melheim
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>> SMelheim85 at gmail.com
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