is there a way to run openwrt and debian at the same time without virtualization?

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• possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I would strongly recommend that you get some newer hardware. That thing isn’t going to perform well plus you will likely run into hardware failures due to age.

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• vk6flab@lemmy.radio ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Docker is not virtualisation, although it’s a common misconception.

  A better way to think of it is a security wrapper around untrusted processes.

  You can prove this for yourself by looking at all the processes running in a Docker host while one or more containers are running, you’ll see all the processes listed.

  In other words, you don’t need a CPU capable of virtualisation to run Docker.

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  • Fuzzypyro@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    This.

    Also containerization in general. Not just docker. This includes podman and LXC (which is probably your best bet if you want a full system in a container)

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• infeeeee@lemmy.zip ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Just the heads up, that cpu is ancient. It’s performance is comparable to an Rpi 4, but that old cpu consumes 30W+ while a full rpi maxes around 6-7 W. Rpi 5 is around 4-5 times more powerful with less than half power.

  So it’s good if you just tinkering with old hardware for fun, but you can buy far more powerful modern hardware for only several dollars if you look at the second hand market.

  Also I remember, I dealt with Toshibas from that era, they were quite locked down, e.g. you couldn’t install upstream nvidia drivers on them only the outdated ones signed by Toshiba. So it’s not unexpected that they locked down also some options like that are missing in bios settings.

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• tal@lemmy.today ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I don’t know why you want a BIOS update.

  If you’re wanting VT-x support, looks like it’s present.

  mobilespecs.net/…/Toshiba_SATELLITE_M100-221.html

  Processor Model: T5600

  www.techpowerup.com/…/core-2-duo-t5600.c378

  VT-x

  superuser.com/…/what-is-difference-between-vmx-an…

  The CPU flag for VT-x capability is “vmx”; in Linux, this can be checked via /proc/cpuinfo

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  • artiman@piefed.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    because there is no option to enable it in the bios

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• Shimitar@downonthestreet.eu ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Virtualization cpu support only help with performance. You can run VMs without it…

  You could even run a VM with full software emulation somehow…

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  • artiman@piefed.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    How big would the performance hit be for that? I want to run quite some apps

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    • Shimitar@downonthestreet.eu ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Wait, docker doesn’t require any hardware virtualization that’s only for VMs…

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