Laptops Compatible with Virtualization and Linux

[Rajinder Yadav]

Christopher Browne wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 4, 2009 at 6:39 PM, Ivan Avery Frey <ivan.frey-H217xnMUJC0sA/PxXw9srA at public.gmane.org> wrote:
>> Is there a review out there of laptops compatible with virtualization
>> and Linux.
> 
> One of my coworkers has been using VMWare for pretty much this
> purpose, for many years now.
> 
> He's a FreeBSD guy; his usual combination was to host VMWare atop
> Windows, then spawn hordes of FreeBSD instances.  (The usual point
> being that they are running PostgreSQL instances that he might kill
> off in varying ways to do tests...)
> 
> At any rate, VMWare has worked fine for him on a whole bunch of
> different laptops since the other end of the decade.  I've seen others
> using VMWare for such things on Linux since before that.
> 
> There may be merits to having special hardware to support
> virtualization, but VMWare started doing this well before that was a
> twinkle in Intel's eye.
> 
> There may be reasons to avoid VMWare (hey, it's proprietary stuff, so
> RMS would not be proud :-)), but it may be worth considering...

I have an old Compaq Laptop with AMD Athlon 64bit processor. I've got VMware 
installed on it and I've been able to install various Linux Distor: CentOS 5.3, 
Slackware 12.3, Kubuntu 9.10, Fedora 11, and Debian 5.0.

They all seem to work just fine for me.

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