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From: "Mark Rogers" mark@quarella.co.uk To: main@lists.alug.org.uk Sent: Friday, 30 July, 2010 10:29:17 AM Subject: Re: [ALUG] Compaq CQ5306uk - good bet for Ubuntu? On 30/07/10 10:18, Mark Rogers wrote:
- Core-2 Quad Q8300
[...] running virtual machines would be good (using VirtualBox)
Just looking now, I can't find a definitive answer as to whether the Q8300 has VT-x extensions. Anyone know? Do I need them?
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
Hope that helps
Jim