From: "Rich" 

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   Probably not.  Probably to address compatibility concerns.  Existing =
BIOS have options to disable NX and HT for similar reasons.  There is no =
security benefit because any trojan that could install a virtual machine =
could change the BIOS setting.

Rich

  "/m"  wrote in message =
news:bucda2h5817cqlvgo0h9e1opnpgf88e5rf{at}4ax.com...

  Interesting that my new notebook has a BIOS option to disable the
  virtualization capability of the CPU.

  Probably as a line of defense against the VM trojans.

   /m

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not.  =
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address compatibility concerns.  Existing BIOS have options to =
disable NX=20
and HT for similar reasons.  There is no security benefit because = any=20
trojan that could install a virtual machine could change the BIOS=20
setting.
 
Rich
 

  "/m" <mike{at}barkto.com>">mailto:mike{at}barkto.com">mike{at}barkto.com>
wrote=20
  in message news:bucda2h5817=
cqlvgo0h9e1opnpgf88e5rf{at}4ax.com...Interesting=20
  that my new notebook has a BIOS option to disable =
thevirtualization=20
  capability of the CPU.Probably as a line of defense against =
the VM=20
 
trojans. /m

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