[wellylug] virtualisation options?

Rimu Atkinson rimuatkinson at gmail.com
Thu Mar 12 15:41:20 NZDT 2009


>> But to run XP you would need a CPU that supports virtualsation.  Which
>> on a stock laptop may not be able to do it.
>>     
>
> *nod*  This is the biggest limitation of getting *good* emulation; on
> that basis VMWare is the least awful fallback choice, I would say, if
> you can't run KVM.
>
>   
Yep no hardware support for virtualisation on this wee thing :(

VMWare might have to be it. Performance was *ok* when I used it last 
time, and a bit of extra RAM will reduce the disk thrashing I imagine ;-)

R
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