<div dir="ltr">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.<div>
<br></div><div>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.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Here's a chart from Intel for reference. Very few of their processors released in the last several years lack the hardware support: <a href="http://ark.intel.com/Products/VirtualizationTechnology">http://ark.intel.com/Products/VirtualizationTechnology</a></div>
</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Feb 1, 2014 at 5:07 PM, David L. Anselmi <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:anselmi@anselmi.us" target="_blank">anselmi@anselmi.us</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">At SFS today everyone brought (well, or borrowed) a laptop and we did all the class work on a VM.<br>
Is there any trick to running VMs on laptops? What combinations of CPU and virtualization software<br>
work or are problematic? How do you do it?<br>
<br>
I looked once and it seemed (at least in the low-mid range) intel laptop CPUs didn't support<br>
virtualization.<br>
<br>
I also tried to set up a VM on my i3 Windows laptop (to run Linux, of course). The Windows VM stuff<br>
doesn't come with whatever flavor of Windows I have. Virtual Box installed, and I guess ran without<br>
CPU support when configured that way. And didn't seem very stable so it didn't last long.<br>
<br>
I haven't tried any of the VMWare products lately.<br>
<br>
Thanks!<br>
Dave<br>
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