On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 09:32:28AM -0600, Josh Paetzel wrote: > Here's another gotchya you'll want to watch out for in laptops. (as if > there wasn't enough already) > > I was running a 32 bit OS on my last laptop (An IBM/Lenevo T60 with a > core 2 duo 1.66 ghz) which was fully capable of running a 64 bit OS. I > was unable to virtualize 64 bit operating systems due to not being able > to enable VT in the BIOS. > > You need VT support both in the actual hardware (cpu) as well as in the > BIOS in order to virtualize a 64 bit OS from a 32 bit host OS. The BIOS on my T60 supports virtualization just fine. IIRC the fix went in about two years ago, as I bought it in March 2007 and I had no problems with virtualization out of the box. florin -- Bruce Schneier expects the Spanish Inquisition. http://geekz.co.uk/schneierfacts/fact/163 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20081229/ae945772/attachment.pgp