[ale] OT: VT technology in modern OS ?

[Brian Mathis]

Which is why VT is typically disabled in the BIOS by default.  If you know
enough to need it, you know enough to be able to enable it.


❧ Brian Mathis
@orev


On Wed, Sep 3, 2014 at 6:45 PM, Jim Kinney <jkinney at jimkinney.us> wrote:

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> I think it's easier to leave it in that have multiple dies.
> It can be a security problem if black hat hacker installs code that puts
> running os into a VM next boot. Now all keystrokes can be logged with no os
> trace.
>
> On September 3, 2014 4:59:18 PM EDT, Boris Borisov <bugyatl at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >I just read the post for the Chromebook. In same time I have purchased
> >Win
> >8 cheap laptop for my wife ( all because skype ). Just thinking. I can
> >understand dualcore CPU that modern OS use but why is there VT present.
> >Do
> >modern OS's take advantage of VT technology to sandbox applications or
> >is
> >just unnecessary feature of the CPU ?
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