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[Lionel Peterson]

I think that is common, Dell does the same thing.

I suspect it is a security measure, so a virus can't take advantage of  
the VT extensions and bury a VM in the system...

That's all I can think of - is there anything that VT extensions  
interfere with?

Lionel

On Mar 12, 2009, at 10:20 AM, Bill Bradford <mrbill at mrbill.net> wrote:

> On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 10:05:20AM -0400, Joshua Boyd wrote:
>> VMWare claims that VT-x isn't always the fastest mode for their  
>> software
>> anyway. I believe VT-x is mainly needed when running 64bit guests.  I
>> believe that VT-x support is required for KVM to function though.  I
>> don't know about xvm.
>
> Yes - you definitely have to have VT-x for 64-bit guests, as I've
> discovered that HP ships it *off by default* in both desktops at
> workstations.
>
> You have to go into the BIOS to turn it on....
>
> Bill
>
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> Bill Bradford
> Houston, Texas
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