Questions tagged [hardware-virtualization]
Hardware-Virtualization allows one computer to allow emulation of another complete computer by providing hardware-based programs and components
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How to enable hardware virtualization on Asus motherboard
I have motherboard model: Asus MB P8Z68-V LX; LGA1155, Intel Z68 and processor Intel Core i7-2600 (LGA1155)
Searches on the Internet indicate hardware virtualization should be possible with these ...
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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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VT-x/AMD-V hardware acceleration not operational with VirtualBox
I am trying to install OS X with VirtualBox, on my Windows 7 laptop. I see the following error message:
VT-x/AMD-V hardware acceleration has been enabled, but is not operational.
Certain guests (e.g....
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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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Unable to boot Ubuntu 64-bit in Virtualbox on Mac OS X
I have latest generation Macbook Pro 7.1 (Intel Core 2 Duo) running Mac OS X 10.6.6. I installed Virtuabox 4.0.2 and tried to boot Ubuntu 10.10 64-bit iso. The boot options screen from the live CD ...
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Difference between Mac and Windows Host for XP Guest in VirtualBox
Here's the setup: I have an older piece of remote monitoring equipment, known as a Badger. The GUI control software that runs on Windows is a Java app, the CD has a date of 2003 but I think the ...
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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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What is Windows 10's core isolation memory integrity setting, and what does it do?
This setting recently appeared in windows 10 home, as part of the creator's update (1709).
However, other than some cursory info on this insider preview blog and this help page, I can't find anything ...
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Windows Virtual PC, multi-core possible?
I have a PC based on a "Intel i7 975". My OS is "Win7 Ultimate 64bit", and I have installed "Windows Virtual PC" + "XP Mode". My problem is that only ONE core is virtualized, so, can I virtualize two ...
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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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Do mobile AMD A8 processors support IOMMU/VT-D PCI Passthrough for virtual machines?
I have been looking at laptops lately, and I was wondering if the laptop AMD A8 CPUs support PCI passthrough in Xen Hypervisor or KVM. If they do, which specific CPU model numbers are known to support ...
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Remotely connecting a USB device
I need to "remotely" connect a USB device. I need to sync my PDA with my home computer when I only have physical access to my laptop.
I am able to use TeamViewer to remotely control the target ...
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Virtualization not enabled in Windows 8, but enabled in BIOS
I have an i7-2640M processor in a Lenovo T520 laptop with the latest bios. Virtualization is enabled in the bios, and Hyper-V is enabled in Windows 8. Intels CPU tool and Speccy still report that ...
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After enabling hardware virtualization, Windows 7 says it's not genuine
I had to enable hardware virtualization to run an IE7 VPC image. For some reason this makes my Windows installation think that it's not genuine. This in turn also makes Microsoft Security Essentials ...
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Can't enable AMD-V in VirtualBox (hardware virtualization)
In the VM settings, the case VT-x / AMD-V is grey and I can't check it. Why ?
I have a Windows 10 pro host (updated)
I use Vbox 6.1 (the latest)
SVM mode is enabled in my BIOS settings
Windows task ...
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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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Why do PC manufacturers disable advanced CPU features in the BIOS by default?
I've got a Dell Precision T5400 here, and had to go into the BIOS and flip on VT before I was able to run VMs. While I was in there, I found that several other features were disabled (even really ...
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ZFS vs raw disk for storing virtual machines: trade-offs
Background:
I am planning to set up a KVM to run Windows and Linux on the same workstation, and am undecided about how to set up the disks. It is my understanding that raw disks typically improve ...
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Does G41 chipset support virtualization?
I'm confused because Wikipedia it clearly says that Intel G41 chipset does NOT support
Hardware Virtualization. However, from GA-EP41T-UD3L manual, which has G41, I see that its bios has ...
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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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Intel Virtualization Technology not showing up on apparently supported chip
I have a laptop with an Intel i3-3217U CPU which according to the Intel's website supports Vtx, however when I run the Intel Processor Id Utility or Securable it reports that Virtualization Technology ...
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How can I enable hardware virtualization when it has been locked in my Dell Vostro 220 PC?
I need help in unlocking my Dell Vostro 220 hardware virtualization.
I ran SecurAble and it gave me the results below:
64-bit Maximum Word Length
Hardware D.E.P --- YES
Hardware Virtualization --- ...
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Is there a way to make a virtual machine that resembles a given real one as closely as possible?
I've taken a habit of installing OSes on older machines as follows: I create a virtual disk drive on my more powerful desktop, so that it is as large as the physical drive, then I run the installation ...
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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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Virutalizing a physical machine with a DRM software
I have a software on an old Windows 7 machine that checks if it's running on the host machine as its means of DRM protection against piracy, e.g. checking the hard drive UUID. Is it possible to ...
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Win 10 system_service_exception and BSOD after enabling virtualization (vt-x) in BIOS
I want to enable Intel Virtualization Technology via the updated BIOS of my ASUS ROG STRIX Z270I motherboard, but each time I enable it, Windows crashes to blue screen of death with a ...
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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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How do I enable virtualization in Windows 10?
I'm doing a Cordova tutorial and I wanted to enable Hyper-V for phone emulation. Problem was, when I went to toggle it in Control Panel, it said "Hyper-V cannot be installed: Virtualization support is ...
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Using a single powerful computer with multiple users
Let's say a high-end PC e.g. 24+ cores, 128+ GB RAM, NVMe SSD.
I have a team of developers (5-10 people) and want them to use the same computer with multiple VMs. Is this doable and feasible, since ...
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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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Enable Hardware Virtualization BIOS - other way?
I have a 2009 Asus Pro55 Series Laptop Computer which I use for School and "other work". In this case, I am wanting to try out Mac OS X or Windows 7 via a Virtual Machine or by Dual Booting. I have ...
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How do I enable hardware virtualization on ASUS M5A78l-M motherboard, AMD 8350 Processor
How do I enable hardware virtualization on a ASUS M5A78l-M motherboard.
I've tried looking through the BIOS but I can't find the settings what they are usually under, and I have read that this ...
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How does RAM work in a Virtual Machine?
I have set a Linux Virtual Machine with VBox and the host operating system is Windows. I would like to understand how RAM operates on the Virtual machine.
Does the host allocate the guest used RAM ...
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Enabling Intel VT-x on Vagrant guest
I'm running OSX Mavericks, and I know hardware virtualization is enabled. I have a debian VM in Vagrant with a virtual CPU that has support for hardware virtualization, but the vmx flag is disabled. ...
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Virtualize an old MS-DOS machine to VMWare
There is a very old workstation at a power plant running an MS-DOS system based HMI, I need to recover this and I believe the best way is to create a virtual machine from the old physical machine.
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Emulate hardware on non-VM machine
Okay, so here is my situation. I have some software which looks for an installed Video Input Card and based on if it finds anything launches 1 of 2 Renderers, one that launches as fullscreen render ...
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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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Can't enable Hyper-V - Error 0x80070057
I'm currently trying to enable Hyper-V on my HP ProBook 450 G2 with Windows 10 Education but I get error code 0x80070057.
I already checked the following things:
Virtualization is enabled in the ...
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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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Hardware that supports Windows Phone 8 development HAV, SLAT, DEP, Hyper-V etc?
I have a Thinkpad T61p which is about 4 years old. It has a Core2 Duo T9300. I upgraded to Windows 8 intending to develop Windows Phone 8 apps. It turns out that the WP8 emulator requireds Hardware ...
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VM, dual book + VM, or multiple machines?
I'm trying to configure my long term setup and have a menu of many devices, although most of them are older and have an issue or two.
Lenovo ThinkCentre M82 SFF
w/ Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-3570 CPU @ 3....
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vt-x error setting up vb. cant change settings
im trying to set up a virtual machine of dos using oracle on windows 10.
using all default settings (32mb of ram, virtual hard disk with 500mb, hard disk file type = vdi... )
specific version of ...
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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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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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what is the network bandwidth of a virtual nic?
I am trying to do communication between two VMs hosted on one server. I want to know what is the maximum bandwidth capacity of virtual nics ? I am using virtual machine manager.
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Virtualizing an ISP WAN Connection
If an ISP offers one WAN connection, and any additional WAN connections would incur extra fees as well as wiring another port and such, how could they track a virtual IP?
For background information, ...
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