On Sun, Dec 12, 2010 at 10:21 AM, Robert P. J. Day <[email protected]> wrote: > > (the first in what might be a few beginner-level questions as i > finally dig into vbox thoroughly.) > > i'm working my way thru the vbox 4.0.0 beta manual and want to > clarify anything that i don't quite understand. early on, i read that > vbox doesn't *require* the standard intel or AMD HW virt support, > which is fine. but if that support exists, does vbox take advantage > of it? a pointer to the explanation somewhere would work just fine. > thanks. >
1. Virtualization with hardware VT is more correct; some x86 instructions are not virtualized correctly with soft-virt (Software virtualization) - so some OSes, such as OpenBSD won't run in this mode. 2. You can run SMP guests with VT 3. You can run 64-bit guests with VT -- -Alexey Eromenko "Technologov" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Lotusphere 2011 Register now for Lotusphere 2011 and learn how to connect the dots, take your collaborative environment to the next level, and enter the era of Social Business. http://p.sf.net/sfu/lotusphere-d2d _______________________________________________ VBox-users-community mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/vbox-users-community
