In BIOS, should Intel Virtualization Technology be enabled or disabled?
Wednesday, May 5th, 2010 at
3:36 pm
If I am just a home user who is not running a server or virtual machine?
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it depends more on the processor you are using if the intel processor you are using supports virtualization you should leave it enabled
it shouldn’t really matter…by default, it’s turned on, but seeing as you aren’t running a virtual machine, you can turn it off if you feel like it.
Supposedly, Virtualization will help with DEP (Data Execution Prevention) which is a way to help keep your computer secure. If you use DEP, then you will want this set to ON. There are other reasons to turn this on and off, but the security angle is the primary one that most people are concerned with.
there’s no downside to leaving it turned on and no improvement if it’s turned off. in a corp environment IT might turn it off for security reasons.
If you leave it on, you may eventually find that ‘must have’ app that you need to run in XP mode and Virtual PC allows you to do that. Or you can setup a virtual Win7 (VPCs are 32 bit only) to try out programs and be 100% certain it won’t touch your main system. VPC has some good uses.