Benefit of enabling VT-d in BIOS?

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rjo98
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Benefit of enabling VT-d in BIOS?

Post by rjo98 »

OK, I know my Intel process has the VT-d or whatever its called support disabled in the BIOS, but what benefits would I gain by turning that on? I run an XP virtual machine, and am starting to use CentOS and Fedora in VirtualBox 3.
greenscope
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Re: Benefit of enabling VT-d in BIOS?

Post by greenscope »

I'm not sure, but my processor seems running more efficient when turning on VT-x.

Also it's the only way that I can install 64-bit Guest OS.
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