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Re:Windows Sandbox by coder543 on Wednesday December 19, 2018 @02:55AM (#18713985)
Effectively all x86_64 hardware from the last 10+ years supports hardware virtualization, so I can't agree.
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Re:Windows Sandbox by kevingadd on Wednesday December 19, 2018 @05:32AM (#18714682)
Aside from the points made by another reply (BIOS support, older CPUs), some machines have virtualization switched off by default because it's broken. I had a (fairly old) x86-64 laptop that would randomly hardlock while running VMs if I turned on hardware virtualization.
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Re:Windows Sandbox by justincormack on Wednesday December 19, 2018 @03:45AM (#18714189)
Not necessarily in the Bios settings. And there are CPUs without still.
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