AMD Athlon 64 Orleans

[L_B_F]

As best I can tell - most sources believe this chip to have
virtualization support.

Yet Newegg lists them with specs that indicate the support is not
present. I contacted Newegg, and they suggested that I contact AMD.

Does anyone know if all of this series has the support - or is it
possible that there were some made without the support?

Frank

 

[MC]

As best I can tell - most sources believe this chip to have
virtualization support.

Yet Newegg lists them with specs that indicate the support is not
present. I contacted Newegg, and they suggested that I contact AMD.

According to AMD, AMD processors using Socket AM2, Socket S1, and Socket
F include AMD Virtualization support. No exceptions. Since the Orleans
is an AM2 processor, unless there is any conclusive evidence to the
contrary, you can safely assume it has AMD-V Virtualisation support.

MC

 

[BC]

As best I can tell - most sources believe this chip to have
virtualization support.

Yet Newegg lists them with specs that indicate the support is not
present. I contacted Newegg, and they suggested that I contact AMD.

Does anyone know if all of this series has the support - or is it
possible that there were some made without the support?

Frank

From Wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_AMD_Athlon_64_microprocessors#.22Orleans.22_.28F2.2C_90_nm.29

"Orleans" (F2, 90 nm)

* All models support: MMX, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, Enhanced 3DNow!, NX
bit, AMD64 (an x86-64 implementation), Cool'n'Quiet, AMD Virtualization

http://www.techpowerup.com/cpudb/details.php?id=365

http://www.c627627.com/AMD/Athlon64/

So, looks like that is most likely a typo on Newegg's part. (Very hard
to find info on the AMD.COM site IMO....)

One thing, that is a pretty inexpensive, one core CPU--I do not have any
virtualization experience, but it seems like a dual core chip might be
better for virtualization.

HTH,

BC

 

[gg]

only if you are using multi-core capable virtualization software like
Microsoft virtual server.


ms virtual PC will use only one core. so unless you run other programs
besides virtualization vm you will not be able to use the other core

 

[Guest]

Dual core is the way to go...your local system can use one core...the
Virtual system uses the other core.

 

[MC]

One thing, that is a pretty inexpensive, one core CPU--I do not have any
virtualization experience, but it seems like a dual core chip might be
better for virtualization.

I've got good experiences with single-core virtualization. It's really
no problem unless you have a lot of VMs running at the same time that
all get average use. In that case you can feel it, but then again I
would probably run that on a multi-core server anyway ;-)