Enabling Virtual Machine support

[Ben Scott]

On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 7:59 PM, Thomas Charron <twaffle at gmail.com> wrote:
>  Intel's VT-x extensions *MUST* be enabled and supported by BIOS.
> I'm not sure why ...

  I seem to recall this facet of the design being sold as a security
feature.  The scenario given was the entire nominal installed OS
running inside a hostile VM which installed itself as part of some
malware attack.  So at boot, the virtualization stuff is disabled by
default.  Or something like that.

  FWIW, YMMV, I may be wrong, etc.

-- Ben