Re: Virtualbox binaries

Andreas Ludwig schrieb:
On Tue, 30 Oct 2007 08:57:19 +0100, Herwig Bauernfeind wrote:

Not being very familiar with VirtualBox as a long time VirtualPC user - am
I right that it's of no use to try to run it on an old Athlon XP 3000+
system which does not have anything like multiple cores, hyperthreading or
hardware virtualization capabilities?
why not?

I'm using it on an server with Pentium IV/2,8GHz on Linux and on a
Pentium M/1,6Gz on Linux and also on my CoreDuo/2GHz on Windows and
Linux and it works really good on all systems!

But OS/2 as guest works ONLY on the last machine, because Intel-VT or
AMD-V hardware-virtualization is a must - Windows XP as guest works well
without that!
I fully second that. I installed Windows 2000 testwise on the 1.4.0
build and this also worked quite well here (no net however, as others
have noted before).

My machine is a AthlonXP 3000+ and the vm speed is absolutely comparable
with VPC/2, harddisk access eventually being a bit faster, screen
rendering being a bit slower.

Herwig, I'm confused - are you running the 1.4.0 build on eCS or OS/2? I have
a dual Opteron here and thought I needed a recent Intel CPU to run
VirtualBox.
I ran the Virtualbox 1.4.0 OS/2-host on a reasonably old AthlonXP 3000+
(K7 family, Barton core). From what I have read I wont be able to use
OS/2-guests because my CPU does not have the Vanderbilt/Pacifica
extensions found in recent Intel/AMD CPUs.

Regards,
Herwig
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