[colug-432] sadly, my 2012 vintage HP laptop was offered as a sacrifice

[Jim Wildman]

Russ, the Lenovo W541 is the one I've got that the external ports would not work on.

u<FOn Tue, 6 Oct 2015, William Yang wrote:

> All joking aside, I think the Lenovo W541 does 1, 2, 3 and a; 'b' sounds
> like a job for a USB dongle to me.  Don't know how well put together they
> are, though.
>
> 	-Bill
>
>
> On 10/05/2015 02:21 PM, R P Herrold wrote:
>> to the Delta Airline gods.  Not intended for such, and for the
>> life of me I cannot see how they got to it, but, there you are
>>
>> Its display has gone cracked, with a most artistic pattern
>> displayed
>>
>> nice little unit -- virtualization capable, everything worked
>> under Centos 7 (save possibly the camera, which I never
>> tested)
>>
>> My question, after a morning spend 'researching' is:
>> 	Does anyone know of a good replacement candidate in
>> current production to run KVM / Linux on?
>>
>> Criteria would include:
>> 	1.  an additional 2.5 in sata drive bay, beyond the
>> 	basic drive used for the US (I consider here that
>> 	there are post 2.5 in form factor ssd NAND 'm-drives'
>> 	-- 1.7 in form factor or such;  I have a "Brix" set
>> 	up with one, and it runs fine)
>>
>> 	2. Intel multi-core, 64 bit processor, with the
>> 	ability to use hardware virtualization (i.e., at least
>> 	the VMX bit present)
>>
>> 	3.  at least one hardware ethernet port
>>
>> Extra points for:
>> 	a. capable of holding ram above 16G
>>
>> 	b. second hardware ethernet port
>>
>>
>> One assumes that HDMI or DP video outputs, included wifi
>> connectivity, and at least a couple USB ports are pretty
>> standard these days
>>
>> I can certainly do without a CD / DVD drive, on the assumption
>> that 'booting from USB' or PXE will solve any initial install
>> problem
>>
>> -- Russ herrold
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