AES-NI use in VirtualBox 5.0

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AES-NI use in VirtualBox 5.0

Post by birdie »

1) Does VirtualBox use AES-NI instructions? Make sure you do.
2) Please, add a warning for people whose CPUs lack AES-NI instructions because without hardware assisted acceleration AES encryption/decryption can be very taxing (there are quite a lot of people out there running Intel Celerons and Pentiums).
aeichner
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Re: [QUESTION] AES-NI use in VirtualBox 5.0

Post by aeichner »

We do use AES-NI where available. Have to check how much effort it is to implement the warning in case AES-NI is not available.
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