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Are there any pros/cons to enabling virtualization on my computer?
If I am not using any virtualization software on my computer, do I gain or lose anything by enabling (or disabling) x86 virtualization?
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Why is Hardware Assisted Virtualization disabled by default?
Why would vendors by default set hardware assisted virtualization off? I have a Lenovo Thinkpad X201 (64bit) but it seems this is the case with other vendors too. I want to run some virtual machines ...
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Are there any benchmarks showing difference between hardware virtualisation enabled/disabled?
I have a 13" sub-laptop/large-netbook, it has an AMD Athlon Neo X2 L335, and I chose this one because it supports hardware virtualisation.
In the end, I hardly do any virtualisation on it, however, ...
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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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How do you enable multi-core virtualization in Windows 8 Pro?
I've just got a new Dell Vostro 470 with a quad core (8 threads) i7 3770 and I'm trying to run virtual machines on it, which works fine, except if I want to assign multiple cores to a VM. I've checked ...
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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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CPU modes and recursive virtualisation
I'm trying to get my head around virtualisation and hypervisors.
So the top OS, say Linux, runs in ring 0, with userspace programmes running in ring 3. The user boots up VMware, with Linux running ...
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Setting up a bare-metal virtualized system where hypervisor hosts a SW RAID
[I am completely new to running "bare metal" virtualized hardware, so please lead me to TFM, so I can R it.]
What I was hoping to do, is to have some kind of bare metal virtualized server setup, but ...
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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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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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Dual boot Windows 10 & Ubuntu, also run Ubuntu in hyper-v?
I dual-boot with separate SSD's for Windows 10 and Ubuntu 16.04. Is there a way that I can virtualize the Ubuntu 16.04 SSD in Hyper-V or VirtualBox and still be able to dual boot?
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Virtualization of desktop
I'm thinking about virtualization of my laptop(for educational purposes). My idea is to install very light host OS and have all the rest as virtual machines. Microsoft's Hyper-V Standalone would be ...
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Q9550 CPU Not supporting Hardware Virtualization?
According to Intel's Website, my Q9550 processor should support Hardware Virtualization. (It says on the box and many other sources too, so the website isn't wrong). However, according to Microsoft's ...
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What is a "raw disk" and how are filesystems set up on one?
I am trying to understand how "raw disks" work on virtual machines.
If I understand correctly, if I want to run Windows off of a raw disk with KVM as my host, I must install NTFS drivers on the host, ...
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Oracle virtualbox not allowing than one CPU - Hardware virtualization not available
I have the following hardware configuration:
Processor: AMD FX-8120 (Zambezi)
Board: ASUS M5A88-M
OS : Windows 8.1
RAM : 4GB DDR3
I installed Genymotion which created a virtual machine for Android. ...
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