What switches do you turn off in your BIOS?

[diedrichg]

I have a Supermicro X10SLM-F-O motherboard. Just curious what switches and features everyone turns off in their BIOS settings.

 

[DrKK]

I tend to turn off the "virtualization" thing, because, we have discovered, that when it's on, and unused, it costs (believe it or not) a couple of watts.

Also I turn off all USB3.0/XHCI related things.

 

[silverbull]

I tend to turn off the "virtualization" thing

I was looking at the VT-x and VT-d settings in my BIOS on X11SSM and didn't turn them off as I though jails may potentially use them. Do jails not use any of the hardware virtualisation?

 

[DrKK]

I was looking at the VT-x and VT-d settings in my BIOS on X11SSM and didn't turn them off as I though jails may potentially use them. Do jails not use any of the hardware virtualisation?

Correct. Jails do not use that virtualization principle---or really, any virtualization principle, in some sense. A jail is more like a "very fancy chroot" than a "virtual machine", in my view.

 

[Mirfster]

I don't use jails personally, all my VMs are on ESXi or Hyper-V. However, I do have those enabled since I want to take advantage of them and be able to "pass-through" devices directly to certain VMs. Just my 2 cents...

 

[silverbull]

Correct. Jails do not use that virtualization principle

Thanks, VT-x and VT-d now disabled

 

[maglin]

You need VT-d to be able to pass through multiple layers. It might be needed in FreeNAS 10. Pertaining to jails. And I say might because I don't know how VMs are going to work.


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

 

[silverbull]

You need VT-d to be able to pass through multiple layers

I'll have freenas running direct on the hardware not in a VM so don't see that I'll need to pass through any devices. But yes, agreed I'd need to look at it for freenas 10 upgrade, thx.