[CentOS] OT: laptop recommendations for CentOS6

Sat Aug 17 16:40:42 UTC 2013
carlopmart <carlopmart at gmail.com>

On 17/08/13 15:38, wwp wrote:
> Hello Ljubomir,
>
>
> On Sat, 17 Aug 2013 16:14:11 +0200 Ljubomir Ljubojevic <centos at plnet.rs> wrote:
>
>> On 08/17/2013 03:23 PM, Eliezer Croitoru wrote:
>>> On 08/17/2013 04:08 PM, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote:
>>>> I recently bought Samsung NP350E5x-A04HR that is all Intel with with
>>>> traditional Fn function (some manufacturers reverse the Fn action so you
>>>> get F1-F12 WITH Fn, and play/pause/wireless/etc are used WITHOUT Fn key)
>>>> with current problem that volume key goes haywire when pressed several
>>>> times and freezes screen. Only thing that it failed to recognize is Card
>>>> Reader, it looks like some bus is not recognized.
>>> and how many VMs are you running on this machine exactly? 1?
>>>
>>> On my laptop it works nicely with more then 5 online linux machines.
>>> try kvm and then VMWARE and then VIRTUALBOX and see what is the
>>> supported OS and I assume XEN is a nice example of how it works on your
>>> machine...
>>>
>>
>> Is there are a reason why KVM, Xen , VMWARE and Virtualbox does not run
>> on CentOS???
>>
>> * KVM works if CPU supports it.
>>
>> * Xen has it's on project on CentOS 6:
>> http://blog.xen.org/index.php/2013/06/20/welcome-to-the-xen4centos6-project-first-release/
>>
>> * VMWare says it supports it:
>> https://www.vmware.com/resources/compatibility/detail.php?deviceCategory=software&testConfig=17&productid=17363&releaseid=217&supRel=217,&deviceCategory=software&operatingSystems=27&testConfigurations=17&osFamily=2&page=1&display_interval=10&sortColumn=Partner&sortOrder=Asc&testConfig=17
> [snip]
>
> Just my 2 cents: I work with VMWare Workstation (currently 8.0.6) since
> ages on CentOS installed on Dell Latitude series laptops (E6530, E6500,
> D810, for work purposes). Some versions needed a vmware-any-any patch to
> install, some are fine out of the box. With CentOS6, with the latest VM
> WS version and the E6530 I only faced a keyboard configuration issue,
> no solution but workarounds that make things OK.
>
>
> Regards,
>
>
Uhmm Dell E6530 seems an interesting option ...