x60 plus hardware virtualization

Hi,

Does anyone know of a way of turning on hardware virtualization on the x60 plus? If I could turn it on, then I'd be able to get more performance from virtual pc, which I use every day in my job.

PS - I suspect it's a bios setting that Samsung will not be turning on in the forseable future...

Cheers
Dave

 

I don't know a way to enable it, but you should consider VirtualBox.
Their product is very competitive (freeware), and their site contains a very good material about Intel's HW virtualization and the penalties you pay for having this enabled. According to their studies, relying completely on intel's Vanderpool technology slows virtualization down to a level that it is slower than a pure software approach. VirtualBox therefore combines the two so they get the best of both of them.

 

virutalbox does look interesting. I am primarily a Microsoft Developer and as such it helps me out on a daily basis if I can use Virtual PC (swapping virtual disk images with colleagues etc.). Virtual PC is now freeware from Microsoft - thanks largely to the efforts of VMware and now presumably virtualbox...

I don't actually have any performance issues at current, I'm just a perfectionist, who'd like to turn virtualization on, just to see the effect in virtual pc. Currently I run a windows server virtual pc on my x60 plus, therein I've got a fully blown Enterprise SQL Server, a web server and two copies of visual studio 2005 running. My host operating system is running the virtual pc containing all the above and outlook, word & excel. Everything runs very quickly, I rarely see cpu useage above 60%. In fact the virtual wk2 server runs faster than any server I've ever worked at in a server room.

Dave

 

All I am saying, you MIGHT have some performance problem (depending on VirtualPC's implementation) if you found a way to enable HW virtualization support. At the current stage, this is the penalty if you wanted to have higher security in the virtualized OS.