RE: [Xen-users] VT-enabled Workstations

[Steve Brueckner <steve@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Petersson, Mats wrote:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: xen-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> [mailto:xen-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Mike M
>> Sent: 04 January 2006 14:13 To: xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Subject: [Xen-users] VT-enabled Workstations
>> 
>> Hi List,
>> 
>> I was curious if anyone knows of a vendor selling VT-enabled
>> Pentium CPU workstations.  I have a pretty desperate need to
>> run Windows and Linux simultaneously, and obviously would
>> prefer not to run VMWare.
>> 
>> According to Intel's website, there are three chips currently
>> available that support the VT instructions: Pentium 4 672,
>> Pentium 4 662, and the Pentium Extreme Edition 955.
>> Unfortunately, after much Googling my search is still fruitless.
>> 
>> If anyone can point me in the right direction, I would appreciate it!
> 
>> From what I understand (and as you can probably gather from my e-mail
> address, I'm not exactly on the distribution list of Intel
> newsletters), there aren't many of these processors in distribution
> at the moment. I think they, technically, went on sale in December
> (or even late November), but only a few processors were actually
> shipped.    
> 
Correct, us regular folks can't get a hold of these chips yet.  From what
I've read, they should start appearing in mid to late January.  Search for
Pentium D 9xx.  For example, Onsale.com has them available for preorder, but
no word on when they'll be in:

http://www.onsale.com/onsale/search/search.asp?search=pentium+d&CurDSN=simpl
e&calledfrom=1&incimage=on

Steve Brueckner, ATC-NY

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