Comments on: VMware 12.5.9 on Windows 10 build 1903 / version 18362

By: Richard Birch

Richard Birch — Fri, 24 Apr 2020 21:03:35 +0000

That’d make a lovely Mac mini-esque Hackintosh with a 3770T in it.

By: neozeed

neozeed — Sat, 02 Nov 2019 00:42:19 +0000

In reply to BiLL. I just get some weird error about not having a BIOS driver or something weird. I'm thinking of buying some older i7 getting a new GPU and maxing ram or something. This machine is a glorified laptop, and it's starting to drive me crazy..

By: BiLL

BiLL — Fri, 01 Nov 2019 12:27:54 +0000

In reply to neozeed.

I may have found it on the Japanese Fujitsu support page.
There are two versions of these machines there B532/F and a /G.

http://www.fmworld.net/biz/fmv/support/download/index_desktop.html

By: neozeed

neozeed — Fri, 01 Nov 2019 02:03:41 +0000

In reply to BiLL. I thought it may be a bios thing too, but couldn't find anything. It's an okay tiny machine, but now I have the desire to play something and the lack of PCI express is kind of a shame.

By: BiLL

BiLL — Thu, 31 Oct 2019 22:28:38 +0000

In reply to neozeed. It's probably a BIOS issue. If it's possible an update might help. I only have experience with standard SFF size european versions of these esprimos. In those VT can be enabled somewhere in the setup.

By: neozeed

neozeed — Thu, 31 Oct 2019 02:07:05 +0000

In reply to raijinkai. I passed by a store last night that had a bucket of Xeon 2011's for 500 yen each. Kind of strange to be in the situation where the cost of the processor isn't the issue!

By: raijinkai

raijinkai — Thu, 31 Oct 2019 01:46:52 +0000

In reply to Malcolm. At least your main is Ivy Bridge. I'm using a Nehalem based Laptop as my everyday PC (Latitude E6410) xD.

By: neozeed

neozeed — Thu, 31 Oct 2019 00:50:45 +0000

In reply to Malcolm.

The apartment Im renting only has a single 1500 watt breaker for the entire place! Using a hair dryer Ive already managed to trip the thing.

I’m not sure what is missing CPU wise exactly but it wasn’t happy on this old thing.

Beyond the insane low power here the only thing worse is the keyboards here with the incredibly tiny space bars… and weird layouts. At least it’s not AZERTY!

By: Malcolm

Malcolm — Wed, 30 Oct 2019 18:30:05 +0000

Okay, I’ll bite – why?

First, didn’t you just buy a couple Ivy Bridge era Xeons (https://virtuallyfun.com/wordpress/2019/02/06/huananzhi-x79/)? My main desktop is an Ivy Bridge too – I wouldn’t think of them as ancient, because newer CPUs are still only marginally faster and have very few interesting extensions.

But what I’m confused about is the ark page indicates this chip has EPT which AFAIK is what Microsoft calls SLAT which is the thing Windows clients want in order to run Hyper-V. So what requirement does current VMware have that this processor doesn’t support?