Re: [orca-list] How you can help

[Halim Sahin <halim sahin t-online de>]

Hi,
On Do, Mär 04, 2010 at 07:21:57 +1100, Luke Yelavich wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 04, 2010 at 02:42:14AM EST, Michael Whapples wrote:
> > I think you hit the nail on the head regarding VMs, I don't know
> > that my hardware supports virtualisation (I think I have seen
> > essages appearing regarding that). My desktop is a 2.4GHz pentium 4,
>
> I think the earliest intel CPUs that supported hardware virtualization
> are the core2 chips, and I am pretty sure pentium 4 chips do not
> support hardware virtualization, so the only form of virtualization
> you could use is from vmware, and the virtualization technology they
> used for many years prior to hardware virtualization in the latest
> CPUs. In other words, you can't use KVM/VirtualBox, only Vmware.

NACK, Virtualbox can run on older cpu's as well.
You are right kvm can't run but qemu .
Qemu isn't really usable when doing complex tasks because it is
emulating the hardware completely which results in bad performance :-(.

Try to run virtualbox.
BR.
halim