[vox-tech] Atom 230 does support 64 bit!

[Brian Lavender]

I just installed Debian AMD 64 and Xen. 

I also followed the following howto[1] for creating VMs. The xen-tools
really make it easy to create Debian VMs even on LVM backed VMs.

I tell you, Xen is so fast! It's nice to see all the native CPU
instruction set too in the VM! VirtualBox is easy, but for performance,
it looks as if Xen takes the ticket! I did a paravirtualized install. This
processor doesn't have the vmx instruction set for ring '-1'.

[1]http://www.howtoforge.com/virtualization-with-xen-on-debian-lenny-amd64

On Sun, Jan 10, 2010 at 04:26:57PM -0800, Brian Lavender wrote:
> I originally thought that this 230 Atom processor was just 32 bit, but
> I discovered it supports 64 bit. I forget who I was talking to at the
> last Lugod social, but he was telling me that the Atoms were 64 bit. I
> didn't think they were. It is true that the N270 (My Dell Mini 9) is
> only 32 bit, but this 230 (MSI Wind Barebone system) is 64. 64 bit sure
> does make a difference!
> 
> I guess I just wanted to stand partly corrected! ;-)
> 
> Atom N270
> http://processorfinder.intel.com/details.aspx?sSpec=SLB73
> 
> Atom 230
> http://processorfinder.intel.com/details.aspx?sSpec=SLB6Z
> 
> -- 
> Brian Lavender
> http://www.brie.com/brian/
> 
> "There are two ways of constructing a software design. One way is to make
> it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies. And the other
> way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies."
> 
> Professor C. A. R. Hoare
> The 1980 Turing award lecture
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Brian Lavender
http://www.brie.com/brian/

"There are two ways of constructing a software design. One way is to make
it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies. And the other
way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies."

Professor C. A. R. Hoare
The 1980 Turing award lecture