Quick Question About Sandybridge & Virtualisation

[TiVoMad]

Hi All,
I'm looking at a system upgrade and thinking of Sandybridge for my CPU. I've seen somewhere that the 'K' series doesn't support some form of hardware virtualisation. I use VMWare Workstation quite a bit for work related stuff - will it be OK on a 'K' series ? Will it be degraded in any way ?

Cheers,
TiVo.

 

[Biffa]

It has VT-x and VT-d so you'll be fine. Don't trust what you read "somewhere" go straight to the horses mouth. http://ark.intel.com/Product.aspx?id=52214

 

[joeyjojo]

I'd love to know what kind of performance increase comes from these virtualisation instructions. I'm running vmware player on a E7200 and it works fine.

 

[MikeHiow]

It has VT-x and VT-d so you'll be fine. Don't trust what you read "somewhere" go straight to the horses mouth. http://ark.intel.com/Product.aspx?id=52214

When I first booted up my machine, virtualisation was disabled in the BIOS. This was the first time I'd seen it disabled my default, and the option was hardly in an obvious place.

I'd suggest that is where the rumours stem from.

 

[NathanE]

I'd love to know what kind of performance increase comes from these virtualisation instructions. I'm running vmware player on a E7200 and it works fine.

The difference is like night and day

 

[TiVoMad]

It has VT-x and VT-d so you'll be fine. Don't trust what you read "somewhere" go straight to the horses mouth. http://ark.intel.com/Product.aspx?id=52214

Cheers, I will get my order in then

 

[BillHicksRIP]

It has VT-x and VT-d so you'll be fine. Don't trust what you read "somewhere" go straight to the horses mouth. http://ark.intel.com/Product.aspx?id=52214

That link shows the 2600K doesn't have VT-d.