[Xen-users] VT Intel hardware - ASUS P5MT-M confirmed working

["Art Arica3D" <nikicart@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

In addition to our previous reports on the 955X and 945G chipset
motherboards... I wanted to report our latest venture.

This week we got the ASUS P5MT-M working fine with VT using Gentoo and
latest Xen changeset.  We used a Pentium D 930.

This is a micro-ATX motherboard based on the E7230 that has 4 DDR2
DIMM sockets that supports up to 8GB of RAM.  This is better than the
945G chipset boards.

We only tested the system with 2GB of physical ram, but do not expect
issues with more.

As an aside, unrelated to Xen, some cheaper PQI brand RAM we had did
not like this motherboard but worked fine on the 955X and 945G
motherboards.  We switched to a set of Kingston spare RAM we had for
such a situation and got past it.  We have a new set of 4GB Muskin on
order to try out this week.  DDR2 DIMM prices have gone up in price
since we started this project in December, I hope they come back
down... my goal was to try and find 2GB DIMM modules for under $225
each but no luck so far... so we are going to max out with 1GB
modules.  But at least on the E7230 chipset we should be able to use
all 4GB unline the 945G chipset that only allows 3.2GB.

  Stephen Gutknecht

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