[OpenIndiana-discuss] What advantages of KVM over Vbox

[Gregory Youngblood]

Back in October when I was trying to get this working it was suspected that issue with the T7700 was the lack of ept and vpid. Possibly lack of vt-d too. 

Given all the variations I think it would be more reliable and a better community experience to report known working CPUs than pointing to lists like the VTList page at Intel. Of course, that implies someone volunteering to be a gatekeeper to collect, collate, and report that information, and keep it up to date. 

On Dec 5, 2011, at 10:40 PM, Gregory Youngblood wrote:

> I believe you need more than just VT-x. I have a T7700 that the link Gary pointed to (http://ark.intel.com/VTList.aspx) says has VT-x. However that processor doesn't work for OI with KVM, at least not when it's in a Thinkpad T61p. It would sorta try to work, but any guest OS other than OI wouldn't boot the installer.
> 
> I believe you need VT-d and something else that escapes my memory right now, something to do with memory I think. I'll try to find it in my archives. If I do I'll follow up with that as well.
> 
> On Dec 5, 2011, at 7:39 PM, Dave Koelmeyer wrote:
> 
>> On 06 Dec, 2011,at 12:41 PM, Harry Putnam <reader at newsguy.com> wrote:
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>>> 
>>> But I am upgrading... in the sweet bye and bye.
>> If you are going with Intel then make jolly sure to read the small type before committing. I assumed the quad core Q8200 I purchased a couple years back would have VT-x support (quad core Intel CPU, c.2009 right?), but incredibly it doesn't. One of the reasons I buy AMD now (okay, no AMD support for KVM on OpenIndiana yet), these sort marketing tricks are a complete pain in the butt.
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> 
>> -- 
>> Dave Koelmeyer
>> http://blog.davekoelmeyer.co.nz
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