Re: [SLL] Drawbacks of enabling Intel VT

[Derek Simkowiak]

    There are no downsides I am aware of.  It just lets run VMs run 
much faster than without it.

    I don't know why they made it a BIOS option, rather than 'always on'.
On 03/04/2011 09:24 AM, Eric Kahklen wrote:
I just installed Virtualbox last night on a laptop with an Intel i5 proc.
  While installing Ubuntu 64bit server edition for testing, it required that
I enable VT in the BIOS.  What are the downsides of enabling VT on a laptop
in this situation?

Thanks,