Opened 16 years ago
Last modified 14 years ago
#1735 new enhancement
feature-request: Hardware Virtualization GUI Info Utility — at Initial Version
| Reported by: | Technologov | Owned by: | |
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| Component: | GUI | Version: | VirtualBox 1.6.2 |
| Keywords: | Cc: | ||
| Guest type: | other | Host type: | other |
Description
Hi,
In continuing to the bug #1240, and other VT-x related bugs, I can say from personal experience, that hardware virtualization is not always transparent enough.
That is: Hardware virtualization becomes more and more sophisticated, but I'we not seen any "user-friendly" utility (either CLI or GUI), that shows that hosts VT capabilities.
I request either making a separate cross-platform utility for that purpose, or additional GUI Info Dialog within VBox GUI.
It must show the following: -Intel VT-x -Intel VT-d -Intel Extended Page Tables (EPT) -Intel FlexPriority -AMD-V -AMD Nested Page Tables (NPT) -Whenever all the CPUs support all the features -Whenever other virtualizer already uses those features currently (so they are not accessible to VBox) -Whenever BIOS enables/disables those features.
Now, Linux has some limited capabilities in this field, and other platforms, provide even less info to the end-user.
It will really make life easier for lots of people.
-Technologov, 17.06.2008.
