VT technology on Hardware

[alexrabbi]

Hi Guys,

I just want to know if VM workstation and VM's can be installed on a Hardware which do not have VT technology ?

Appreciate if there is a VMware URL which explains this..need to convince my management.

Thanks

Alex

[weinstein5]

Does this help - An Intel CPU that has VT-x support from the following PDF- http://www.vmware.com/pdf/ws80-getting-started.pdf

[a_p_]

If your hardware does not support VMware Workstation 8 (see http://www.vmware.com/support/ws80/doc/releasenotes_workstation_80.html#Installation_Requirements) you can still go with version 7 and install VM's. Whether or not you can run 64-bit guests depends on the CPU capabilities (VT-x), so without this you will only be able to run 32-bit guests.

André

[alexrabbi]

I went thro' the url you sent, thanks for that.

My understanding is if VT is not enabled i will not be able to install VMworkstation and VM's on any server.

Please correct me if i am wrong

FYI - My CPU is intel xeon cpu 3.40ghz

Thanks,

Alex

[admin · Accepted solution]

VT is not required.  However, on Intel hardware, you will be limited to 32-bit guests if you don't have VT.

[alexrabbi]

Thanks...

[alexrabbi]

I have another query...

As u said there is no need of VT for installing workstation , but would there be any performance issues as such ?

Thanks

Alex

[admin]

Performance is generally better with hardware-assisted virtualization on modern processors with nested paging support.  However, binary translation often outperforms hardware-assisted virtualization on processors without nested paging.