[GTALUG] Thinkpad T420 as a VM host

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Sun, Jul 19, 2015 at 06:01:46PM -0400, Alex Volkov wrote:
> So I replaced a 4GB memory stick in my Thinkpad  T420 with an 8GB one
> bringing the total amount of available ram to 12GB with maximum of
> 16GB.Even though Lenovo say that the laptop supports only 8 GB of ram total.
> 
> As it stands now this 4 year old machine becomes a pretty cost-effective
> platform for virtualization:
> 
> * Intel Core i5-2410M

I just checked, and apparently that model does to all the vt-x stuff,
so yes good for VM handling, and even better, apparently with a bios
update it can do aes-ni which can be very handy too.  Linux microcode
handling might also handle the job if no bios upgrade exists.

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Len Sorensen