CPU and Hardware that will work?

[kentishn]

i have a 4 year acer laptop and I was hoping to run VMs off of as just a beginners thing instead of using my desktop pc (as I'm sure ill manage to screw something up ) it but the current CPU in the laptop does not support virtualisation, the one in here is currently a Intel Pentium B980 sandy bridge cpu and the laptop is an acer aspire v3 531. can anyone tell a decent cpu that would work in the laptop I can use that also supports virtualization, thanks

[alexhelvetica]

Don't run VMs off a laptop, laptop cooling tends to be shit meaning you will kill it. Don't upgrade the CPU on the laptop, it isn't worth the time and effort.

 

If you want to virualise, build a desktop with an FX 6300 or FX 8350, or even better, a Xeon or i7.

[Jordaneer]

As far as I know you can't change CPU's in a laptop, or its an extremely complicated process unlike a socketed CPU, plus running virtualization off of a dual core laptop will make it run obnoxiously slow, trust me, I've also tried it on my laptop which has a higher end CPU than a pentium, its just a bad idea in general, run it on your desktop, it will be FAR easier. and virtualization really isn't that hard to do, I did it knowing literally nothing, I would suggest VirtualBox by Oracle or VMWare, plus the good thing with virtualization is if something goes wrong in the virtual machine, you can literally just delete it.