I have a Dell PowerEdge 1750 that I am prepping to go into my company's server room. There are dual Xeon i686 processors and 4Gb of memory. I will be using Scientific Linux 6.1 and the main function will be as a Git repository server. The main application OS for the shop is Windows Server 2003. If possible I would like to run a VirtualBox guest Windows 2003 system for development and test. I have experience using VMware player on Windows 7, but this is my first attempt with VirtualBox. I have not been able to get a VirtualBox host VM to start up.
Are the older Xeon i686 processors supported? I don't want to waste more time if it is not.
Thanks.
Hardware requirements. Xeon i686 supported?
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Re: Hardware requirements. Xeon i686 supported?
FYI (to avoid confusion): VMs are referred to as guests, or as VMs. The host is what (er) hosts the VMs.CootCraig wrote:I have not been able to get a VirtualBox host VM to start up.
I can't think of any reason for them not to be supported. Of course without VT-x there will be some features the VMs can't access, e.g. 64bit operation, multiple cores.CootCraig wrote:Are the older Xeon i686 processors supported? I don't want to waste more time if it is not.
Perhaps it would be best if you gave details of error messages etc.
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Re: Hardware requirements. Xeon i686 supported?
Good to hear. I'll start a thread on the Linux Host group.mpack wrote: I can't think of any reason for them not to be supported. Of course without VT-x there will be some features the VMs can't access, e.g. 64bit operation, multiple cores.
Perhaps it would be best if you gave details of error messages etc.