From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 30 21:06:46 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 868CB106568B for ; Wed, 30 Dec 2009 21:06:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mike.jeays@rogers.com) Received: from smtp125.rog.mail.re2.yahoo.com (smtp125.rog.mail.re2.yahoo.com [206.190.53.30]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 171848FC13 for ; Wed, 30 Dec 2009 21:06:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 6987 invoked from network); 30 Dec 2009 21:06:40 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=rogers.com; h=Received:X-Yahoo-SMTP:X-YMail-OSG:X-Yahoo-Newman-Property:From:To:Subject:Date:User-Agent:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding:Content-Disposition:Message-Id; b=TxWVhZ0UwOCsiEA8Ks/lbtITkDieHJWDtw/+7ieMvxu7l+i/312sUj+nE9/jnlaDNOSt+lTdxzLdft1iv8ZMhGPzfyP+51D1zAa5PG7fQMnMMYbz2/USLlaZ8l4rNpQ9XlB2HcHO3x+LHStXMM3tcIq8TYhLtctYorR+rY0UuDM= ; Received: from CPE0018027b43e0-CM0014e88f61fe.cpe.net.cable.rogers.com (mike.jeays@99.224.61.141 with plain) by smtp125.rog.mail.re2.yahoo.com with SMTP; 30 Dec 2009 13:06:40 -0800 PST X-Yahoo-SMTP: N82WFx6swBBjwcHWPFR2CGt6udzA8RPrA.xm0enFFXaK2g-- X-YMail-OSG: dtUsbj8VM1nEJNXHlAxifG2bjiRGUZ44L6pxIuk1hVR.gjZki.P1NdARgm6qD6OM3Q-- X-Yahoo-Newman-Property: ymail-3 From: Mike Jeays To: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD. ORG" Date: Wed, 30 Dec 2009 16:06:38 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.11.2 (Linux/2.6.28-15-generic; KDE/4.2.2; i686; ; ) MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <200912301606.38905.mike.jeays@rogers.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Subject: Hardware virtualization X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 30 Dec 2009 21:06:46 -0000 I am about to buy a new desktop, and I want to make sure that hardware virtualization is included. In one or two local computer stores, I get a blank look when I ask about this. Intel seems provide it on only certain chip models and they don't seem be very forthcoming, Perhaps it is better to buy an AMD product? Any hints, please?