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Title: Good Virtual Machine (no need of VT)
Post by: va!n on February 04, 2011

I am a happy owner of an Intel Q8200 CPU; but sadly this CPU dont has VT as feature which seems to be required by most virtual machines to run! Due fact i would like to install and run other OS paralel to my root Windows7 installion, i am looking for a good, fast and easy to use/setup virtual machine which dont require the so called VT of the CPU.

Can you recommend any good (probally even free) virtual machine? Btw i tried the virtual machine by sun but i dont got any OS installed/working :(

Title: Re: Good Virtual Machine (no need of VT)
Post by: Jim on February 04, 2011

Probably the one you tried, VirtualBox from Sun/Oracle, is the one which I know should work.
See the limitations here
http://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch10.html#hwvirt (http://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch10.html#hwvirt)

They just released version 4, perhaps you will have more luck with that.

VMWare Server documentation also doesn't say it requires VT-X, I'm pretty sure it isn't needed.
http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vmserver2.pdf (http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vmserver2.pdf)

VirtualPC I'm sure does require VT.

Those are the three free ones I know of.  I've used them all, I have OSX running on VirtualBox.  VMWare Server is pretty heavyweight.

What client OS are you trying to install?  Is your current Windows 7 OS 32 or 64bit?

Jim

Title: Re: Good Virtual Machine (no need of VT)
Post by: Xetick on February 04, 2011

I would go with the VMWare player. It's free and it has worked on all machines I have tried.

Title: Re: Good Virtual Machine (no need of VT)
Post by: va!n on February 04, 2011

Thanks for the infos...

@Jim:
I have d/l the latest version of VirtualBox and tried it again... No chance to get OSX v10.5.6 work on my Windows7 Ultimate x64 system... However i just only want like to play a bit arround with OSX and how does it feels. The main reason to have a virtual machine is, i want install Windows XP and Windows7 x64 as safed testing area.

(http://www.secretly.de/virtualbox.jpg)

@Xetrick:
I will try VMWare now ^^


[Edited - added:]
Argh... email registration before beeing able to d/l a software - how the hell i dislike it. However i registred but seems its not my day - Cant reach my emails (tech probs) :D

(http://www.secretly.de/gmx.jpg)

Title: Re: Good Virtual Machine (no need of VT)
Post by: Jim on February 05, 2011

You need a server version of OSX to work,  I think 10.6.2.  I was screwing around with it for iPhone dev as an ultimately futile experiment.  And to install 64bit clients on VirtualBox you need to have VT-X, which your CPU doesn't have.  You'd have to use W7 32 or XP 32.

I don't know if that's true with VMWare, but you get a lot of software there for just giving them your email address!

Jim