my laptop configuration for xen and KVM -enough or not
 

Hi - i have a laptop with Red Hat enterprise 5 installed
i need to practice xen and kvm for virtualization
the specs are
2.4 intel processor dual core
2 GB ram
250 GB hard drive
is this enough for practice or i need to buy a new computer system for
virtualization - also which is the cheapest processor for built in
Virtualization technologies -thanks
Inara

If it's only for testing, that should be plenty. I have half that on one of my test boxes and it runs xen guests (under SLES not RHEL) just fine.

make sure the CPU has the VT flags, and that the laptops bios has the option to enable them (many vendors simply close that off on the bios level with no option to open that)

If you are running paravirtualized hosts, like domU kernels for linux distros you don't need to worry about VTX technology but if you want to run unmodified guests like Windows or non- paravirtualized versions of Linux you will need to have the VT technology in your processor. Check you moel number at intels site for processor specs. Then Check your bios setting to make sure if there is a Virtualization setting that it is turned on.

How do you suggest to try KVM out without VT/SVM?

Well KVM may require VT/SVM, I was specifically addressing XEN, I should have been more thorough.