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Virtualization is enabled in BIOS but is not working in Windows 11

I have an Intel i7-9700K, and everywhere keeps saying that virtualization is not enabled. I've checked and it is indeed enabled in the BIOS, but it isn't working in Windows 11 Pro 21H2. The Intel ...
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Windows 10 - Hyper-V Support : Yes, Virtualization: Disabled

I've gone through all the steps and gotten Hyper-V enabled properly, but my system still shows Virtualization as disabled even though it also shows Hyper-V is enabled. I have enabled Hyper-V in ...
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Containerized applications and hardware resources

Linux user here. With increasing frequency, I am considering using containerized applications for several applications, mainly to avoid dependency problems and stressful reinstallations in a hurry. In ...
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Isolate single device into separate IOMMU group for PCI passthrough?

I have below IOMMU groups and devices. $ for a in /sys/kernel/iommu_groups/*; do find $a -type l; done | sort --version-sort /sys/kernel/iommu_groups/0/devices/0000:00:00.0 /sys/kernel/iommu_groups/1/...
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Maximum amount of hard drives in 64-bit Linux?

Is there a maximum amount of hard drives that one can connect to a 64-bit linux machine? I'm not concerned with practicality, as my situation involves a VM.
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Pros and Cons of Core isolation and memory integrity in Windows 11

Almost the same question has already been asked for Windows 10: What is Windows 10's core isolation memory integrity setting, and what does it do? 4 years ago and a good answer has been provided ...
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Enabling EPT for nested virtualization

I recently bought a server with the following specs: Supermicro X8DTL-3 (BIOS version 2.1b 11/16/2012) 2x Intel® Xeon® Processor X5660 6x 4GB (Non registered ECC) RAM I've been trying to enable EPT ...
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Virtualization Enabled in BIOS but not enabled in Windows 10

I am trying to install WSL which of course requires virtualization to be on. I tried enabling it in bios, but windows 10 refuses to enable it. I have tried completely disabling Hyper-V, and disabling ...
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Virtualization server - picking the hardware with multiple host adapter

We have decided to pick two servers (hardware) and dedicate them to kvm virtualization, replicating data from server A to server B using DRBD + LVM (every guest will store its virtual disk into its ...
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ASUS PRIME H310M-E R2.0/CSM VX-t virtualization

I bought the motherboard ASUS PRIME H310M-E R2.0 and didn't even check if virtualization is possible with this motherboard. In the bios, I see VT-d and am able to enable that, but I don't see VT-x or ...
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Wacom tablet not moving cursor under KVM Windows guest

I'm running a Windows 10 guest in KVM under an openSUSE Tumbleweed host. I occasionally need Windows on my laptop for creative applications such as Photoshop and KVM has been great so far. However, ...
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Whenever I'm trying to open up an Android Emulator on either VS Code or Android Studio, I get "Windows Hypervisor Platform accelerator is operational"

I'm trying to develop an app using Flutter but whenever I try and open up an Android Emulator I always get "Windows Hypervisor Platform accelerator is operational: Windows Hypervisor Platform ...
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Surface Book and VT-x

I have the Surface Book with i7-6600U processor. It has to support VT-x, however, Intel processor identification utility says it does not. What I tried to do in order to remove this issue: All the ...
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Computer ports like 22, 25, 80, 443 and 3306, are they of the motherboard or of the operating system?

As far as I know as of 2018 some of the 65535 available ports has at least one of what's called a "port proto"; I know 2 such protocols; TCP and UDP, while TCP is the mainly used one. If I'm not ...
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XenServer 7.5 Virtual Machines not booting without installation media

I recently turned an old gaming computer into a server and decided to put XenServer 7.5 on so I could flip between Windows and Linux servers. Installation of the hypervisor went well and I proceeded ...

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