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[Xen-users] VT-X on Dell Machines 
| | Hello.  The following discussion (below) was found in the list archives.  I have an additional question concerning this:  Does this mean that VT will never be supported on the current shipping Dell 1850s?  Or can it be enabled with (a hopefully soon to come) BIOS update?  I have reviewed the <http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/IntelVT> web page in attempt to better
understand this but I am still a bit confused by VT. 
 Some what related, in the case of the current available Dell 1850 configurations, is there a significant performance advantage with Xen when considering 2 x 2.8 GHz Xeon dual-core CPUs vs. 2 x 3.8 GHz Xeon single-core CPUs?
 
 Thank you,
 -Adrian
 
 
 
 To:     <xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
 Subject:        RE: [Xen-users] VT-X on Dell Machines
 From:   "John Anderson" <johna@xxxxxxxxxx>
 Date:   Mon, 20 Mar 2006 13:49:04 -0700
 
 Well, it took me a while to get power hooked up for the new Dell 1850
 dual dual-core EM64T box, but I finally was able to test VT on it.  It's
 bad news.  No VT support. :-(
 
 John A.
 
 
 
 -----Original Message-----
 From: K. Scott Bethke [mailto:scott@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
 Sent: Monday, March 13, 2006 3:02 PM
 To: John Anderson
 Subject: Re: [Xen-users] VT-X on Dell Machines
 
 Its like you're reading my mind..  we use the 1850's/1855's and 2850s
 and will order the dual-cores if it is supporting VT now.   Let me
 know what you find.
 
 -Scott Bethke
 CTO, Carpathia Hosting, Inc
 
 "The whole world steps aside for the man who knows where he is
 going." ...  Unknown author
 
 
 
 
 On Mar 13, 2006, at 4:58 PM, John Anderson wrote:
 
 > I have a dell dual core 1850 here I'm going to be testing this on
 > later
 > today.  I already know that Pacifica support is NOT available in
 > the new
 > SunFire AMD servers from Sun.  I'll know if the Dell will work
 > later on.
 >
 > -----Original Message-----
 > From: xen-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
 > [mailto:xen-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of K. Scott
 > Bethke
 > Sent: Monday, March 13, 2006 10:37 AM
 > To: xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
 > Subject: Re: [Xen-users] VT-X on Dell Machines
 >
 > On Mar 13, 2006, at 12:31 PM, Luke wrote:
 >
 >> Anyone know if any Dell Desktops support VT-X extensions?  I see
 >> that they (the XPS 600 and 400) can come with 9xx Pentium D chips,
 >> and the 945P chipsets.  But has anyone verified that the BIOS
 >> updates available include VT-X support?
 >
 >
 > Same question on the Dell server line, do any of them support VT yet?
 >
 > _Scott
 | 
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