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Canis familiaris
June 29th, 2008, 01:02 PM
My AMD processor has chip has virtualisation and also has virtualization enableed in the BIOS and I have also have enabled the checkbox to enable SVM/VTX also.
Does Virtualbox really use SVM in my AMD chip?

forger
June 29th, 2008, 01:04 PM
edit: ignore

Canis familiaris
June 30th, 2008, 09:51 AM
bump

mips
June 30th, 2008, 11:30 AM
Not as far as I recall.

See:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VirtualBox#Hardware_emulation Notes 8 & 11 a bit confusing.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_virtual_machines