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02-23-2009
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| | Enabling hardware-assisted virtulisation I recently installed Virtual PC and created a virtual machine on a laptop and in the settings Enable hardware-assisted virtulisation checkbox is greyed out with the note below saying hardware-assisted viutualisation is not avaiable on this computer. Is this an automatic process or can I do something to enable hardware virtulisation? Not sure if its necessary to have hardware virtulisation, would there be any benefits? Jan |
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02-23-2009
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| | Re: Enabling hardware-assisted virtulisation Hardware virtualization is part of the hardware and if your PC has it available, you can turn it on in the BIOS. If the hardware is not there, there's no way to change that other than switching out the hardware. (CPU mainly, but there is a BIOS component too) Hardware virtualization helps when installing OS's in VM's and when you're running an OS in a VM that doesn't have Additions, otherwise there's not much difference. -- Bob Comer On Mon, 23 Feb 2009 11:14:49 -0000, "Jan" <jp@xxxxxx> wrote: Quote: >I recently installed Virtual PC and created a virtual machine on a laptop >and in the settings Enable hardware-assisted virtulisation checkbox is >greyed out with the note below saying hardware-assisted viutualisation is >not avaiable on this computer. > >Is this an automatic process or can I do something to enable hardware >virtulisation? Not sure if its necessary to have hardware virtulisation, >would there be any benefits? > >Jan |
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