On 30/07/10 10:58, Jim Rippon wrote:
Its a fairly safe bet that any Intel Core-2-* chip or later has VT-x these days. You'd need it to have a usable VM running in Virtualbox - don't forget you need to make sure libvirt and kvm are not installed by ubuntu else you'll have to remove the kvm and kvm-intel modules every time you want to start a VirtualBox VM with VT-x extensions turned on. There's a fairly well maintained list of virtualisation support currently on wikipedia here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86_virtualization
It was that wikipedia page that gave me the mixed story: regarding VT-x support it includes "some versions of the Q8300".
I'm edging towards http://www.ebuyer.com/product/227083 now, as it has the Q8400 (with 2GB/500GB) for £260+VAT, or possibly building my own if I can decide on a decent motherboard (the last PC I built was probably an early Athlon 64-bit, things have probably moved on!)