[clue] VMs on laptops.

[Caleb K]

I have been using VirtualBox with Ubuntu for almost two years now and it's been excellent. The performance is a little weak for gaming emulators but other than that I have no complaints running a nice LAMP stack with this setup. 

the specs: Lenovo T430 laptop, Intel i5-3320M 2.60 GHz for the CPU, VirtualBox 4.3.6 for the VM, Ubuntu 12.04 LTS for the OS. 

Hope that helps, let me know if you have questions. 

Caleb Kropf
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From: qhartman at gmail.com
Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2014 09:46:57 -0700
To: clue at cluedenver.org
Subject: Re: [clue] VMs on laptops.

I have used VM products on laptops successfully quite often. Mostly Vmware (Workstation or Player) and a little bit of Xen. Xen doesn't strictly require hardware virtualization support, and neither does VMware. There is a performance hit, bit it's tolerable, particular for training stuff. I've used virtualbox as well, but I'm not sure that I've ever done that on a laptop.


I've never experienced "problematic" virtualization though, aside from a known buggy release of virtualbox some years back. It pretty much has either worked completely, or not at all in the cases where I'm trying to use a tech that needs hardware support on a machine that doesn't have it.


Here's a chart from Intel for reference. Very few of their processors released in the last several years lack the hardware support: http://ark.intel.com/Products/VirtualizationTechnology



On Sat, Feb 1, 2014 at 5:07 PM, David L. Anselmi <anselmi at anselmi.us> wrote:


At SFS today everyone brought (well, or borrowed) a laptop and we did all the class work on a VM.

Is there any trick to running VMs on laptops?  What combinations of CPU and virtualization software

work or are problematic?  How do you do it?



I looked once and it seemed (at least in the low-mid range) intel laptop CPUs didn't support

virtualization.



I also tried to set up a VM on my i3 Windows laptop (to run Linux, of course).  The Windows VM stuff

doesn't come with whatever flavor of Windows I have.  Virtual Box installed, and I guess ran without

CPU support when configured that way.  And didn't seem very stable so it didn't last long.



I haven't tried any of the VMWare products lately.



Thanks!

Dave

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