How to implement hardware based memory virtualization?

[dirtdevil01]

I was reading through the tech pdfs and I want to enable hardware based memory virtualization on my host but the docs don't explain how to do it.

[peetz]

If hardware memory virtualization is available (this may depend on hardware vendors and BIOS settings), ESX(i) will use it. There is no way to enable or disable it at a global level.

However, you can enable/disable it per VM: Look at -> Advanced Options -> CPU/MMU virtualization.

I would recommend leaving this at the default ("automatic"). ESX will then choose the method that will give best performance with the selected guest OS version.

Andreas

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