Any via cpus with hardware VT?

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Any with VT extensions? I'd love to have a little mini/nano/pico itx box with 3-4 light load vm's on it.
 
Robstar said:
Any with VT extensions? I'd love to have a little mini/nano/pico itx box with 3-4 light load vm's on it.
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i dont believe so.. have you tried looking at the mitx atom boards? i know they do.

and they will be shipping dual cores soon as well.
 
Why do you need VT extensions? Trying to run a 64-bit VM? You probably won't get any performance improvement by the VT extensions themselves; especially since you say that the VMs are light load anyway.

As far as I know, only Intel and AMD have hardware virtualization technology in their CPUs.
 
SockMan! said:
Why do you need VT extensions? Trying to run a 64-bit VM? You probably won't get any performance improvement by the VT extensions themselves; especially since you say that the VMs are light load anyway.

As far as I know, only Intel and AMD have hardware virtualization technology in their CPUs.
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Nope.

The Via Nano CPU has support to Intel Virtualization, as you can see on Wikipedia:
"Virtualization technology (Intel compatible implementation)"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VIA_Nano
 
juanpaul said:
The Via Nano CPU has support to Intel Virtualization, as you can see on Wikipedia:
"Virtualization technology (Intel compatible implementation)"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VIA_Nano
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Neat-o. There's only a brief mention of virtualization support in the white paper, but none on the product web page. http://www.via.com.tw/en/downloads/whitepapers/processors/WP080529VIA_Nano.pdf

I'll keep the Nano in mind if they make a low cost miniITX board since Intel disables it on low cost chips.
 
If you're going the intel route, Zotac has an NF630 based miniITX board for $60 at the egg, and a 610 based for $40. It's specs are mostly less than intels; but from looking at the mobo manual it may have some basic OC features, although since it doesn't show what's behind the System Clocks and FSB&Memory Config pages it's not possible to know how much, the only visible options are NB speed and Cpu multiplier.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813500012
 
Does VT really make that much of an appreciable difference? I ran a few VMs on the old s940 opterons. they seemed quick enough.
 
I believe KVM (linux) requires VT which is why I am looking for a via cpu with the extensions.
 
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