Which AMD CPUs Support XP Mode Virtualization?

[Guest]

so i can forget about my athlon XP processor..

I had hoped they would say something from 'this type of processor' onwards

 

[HolyCrusader]

The annoying problem that I have is that I have an AMD processor that supports Virtualization, but the MOTHERBOARD does not. I've just recently discovered this. It's a Gigabyte board that is only around 6 months old, and while it lists Virtualization support in the Bios, it apparently is either a bios option unused with that board, or it is some other type of support protocol that is different from AMD's Hyper-V.

I'm in the process of sending-in some e-mails to Gigabyte to see if there might be a Bios update for the board that might enable the necessary Virtualization support needed (as the AMD Utility seems to suggest is possible), but I am not very hopeful.

 

[annymmo]

[citation][nom]randomizer[/nom]So is VMware Server/Player, and most other virtualisation software. It also works far more often than Wine which can fix and then break program compatibility with every new release. Wine is not the answer, native Linux software is.[/citation]

Okay there you'ce got a point.
But it will work faster than other virtualization because it's adding windows api and stuff to Linux. And it is NOT virtualization, it's a step further and because of that more prone to errors.

It could be a solution for people wanting to run a few programs, updating wine until it works and then stick with that version.
It's more efficient than virtualization, that's it's strength.
And the project is still relatively young.

 

[apache_lives]

[citation][nom]socrates047[/nom]History repeats itself (sorta) ... I think AMD is like the Robin Hood character, looking out for the little people[/citation]

Why would the little people need the big peoples features?

 

[Guest]

Cause they like the fact that they can afford an amd equipped PC/Laptop which is powerful enough to do big peoples work, get it?

 

[Guest]

apache_lives might as well ask why one would need a computer in the local office, home, or clipped to the belt. Don't *all* computers belong in a climate-controlled room, accessible only by the priests and acolytes of computing?

In any group of a billion people, there will be one billion different ways of using a computer. AMD are not in the business of telling people how they may and mayn't use their computers. Rather, AMD are in the business of making and selling microprocessors (among other things).