Yes, that scenario is familiar to me: running a VM for my personal use of an organization's computer. Two organizations issued me 64-bit Win7 laptops, with 64-bit virtualization turned off in the BIOS. I had the knowledge and permissions to enable 64-bit virtualization, but many others would not.
On Wed, Apr 25, 2018 at 1:57 AM, Franklin Weng <frank...@goodhorse.idv.tw> wrote: > > > 2018-04-25 13:48 GMT+08:00 Valorie Zimmerman <valorie.zimmer...@gmail.com> > : > >> On Tue, Apr 24, 2018 at 10:29 PM, Franklin Weng >> <frank...@goodhorse.idv.tw> wrote: >> > >> > It's been very difficult to find *real* i386 (single-core) machine now, >> at >> > least here. Even a 10-year-old laptop has dual core. >> > The closest environment I can get is a virtual machine running on PVE. >> > >> > >> > Franklin >> >> Then in your opinion, is it worthwhile to offer them? I was thinking >> of you in particular when I argued for continuing to provide them. >> Testing would be a great deal easier with only amd64! >> >> > I'll say yes, because as I have said a particular scenario would still use > it -- not on a real i386 machine, but on virtual box running on a i386 > Windows host. > I met such scenario several times when promoting FOSS. > > But in this case, it is still running on a virtual machine. In real > machine cases I met (mostly old Eeepc) they were single core and hence need > i386 version, but the memory was too few (less then 1G) to run Kubuntu > live! Only native Lubuntu i386 could fit into those machines. > > > Franklin > > > -- > Franklin Weng > 中華民國軟體自由協會理事長 > LibreOffice 導入專家 > LibreOffice 法人代表文件基金會董事、認證委員會委員 > KDE 協會成員、歐洲自由軟體基金會成員 > > -- > kubuntu-devel mailing list > kubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/ > mailman/listinfo/kubuntu-devel > >
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