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Nov 30, 2007 5:55 AM by
rhilim
Well done you for getting this working.
I've just followed the steps on an HP nc8430 laptop and it works.
As this laptop doesn't have VT capabilities, I needed to comment out that section in the vmx file, but it goes through ok.
Here's the thing though. It works, but I needed to wait 40 minutes for it to complete the boot process. This was with 512MB RAM.
I'm going to push this up to 1.5GB to see if it makes any difference, otherwise I guess I'll wait till the laptop dies and I get a VT model. 
Thanks
Hey guys,
Thanks for the great feedback - we've got toothpicks holding our eyelids up at the moment....
We used OpenFiler to test VMotion but you could use IET or any of the other ISCSI software appliances.
VT is a must - we hit the 40 min boot time on the older kit too, but now we're at 90 seconds for 3 of them now
Cheers
Gavin
Gavin, I appriciate the work you've done in assembling the bits and pieces to an easy to use install guide,
but I do feel you're taking credit for other users hard research here...
What ticks me off is the way you portray it as you came up with this,
and the rather though copyright, when yourself have gotten the vital parts from this very forum.
I think you should credit the people who've done the heavy lifting and countless hours of research
like Dave P, Fabio R and others as well as post the link to your source of information.
The white paper should be updated with this:
For AMD-V CPUs, use: monitor_control.enable_svm = TRUE
\- Anders
BTW: Why are you creating an ESX compatible VM in the white paper?
Do you know something we dont? If so, share the goodies! 
http://www.vmware.com/community/thread.jspa?threadID=67254&start=0&tstart=0