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Windows 11 is the latest major release of the Windows NT operating system and the successor of Windows 10. Some features of the operating system were removed in comparison to Windows 10, and further changes in older features have occurred within subsequent feature updates to Windows 11. Following is a list of these.
Support for Windows 11 guest: UEFI Secure Boot and emulation of TPM 1.2 and 2.0 chips [26] Intel and AMD IOMMU emulation; Full VM encryption (in previous VirtualBox releases only VM disks could be encrypted) available via CLI [26] 3D acceleration with DirectX 11 on Windows, and DXVK on other hosts [26] Dark mode for UI currently implemented ...
VirtualBox has implemented UEFI since 3.1, [152] but is limited to Unix/Linux operating systems and Windows 8 and later (does not work with Windows Vista x64 and Windows 7 x64). [ 153 ] [ 154 ] QEMU / KVM can be used with the Open Virtual Machine Firmware (OVMF) provided by TianoCore .
UEFI support in Windows began in 2008 with Windows Vista SP1. [22] The Windows boot manager is located at the \EFI\Microsoft\Boot\ subfolder of the EFI system partition. [23] On Windows XP 64-Bit Edition and later, access to the EFI system partition is obtained by running the mountvol command. Mounts the EFI system partition on the specified drive.
SMM is a special-purpose operating mode provided for handling system-wide functions like power management, system hardware control, or proprietary OEM designed code. It is intended for use only by system firmware (BIOS or UEFI), not by applications software or general-purpose systems software. The main benefit of SMM is that it offers a ...
DOS, Windows, OS/2, Linux (SUSE, Xubuntu), OpenSolaris (Belenix) Proprietary: Windows Virtual PC (discontinued) Connectix and Microsoft x86, x86-64 with Intel VT-x or AMD-V x86 Windows 7 Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2008 Proprietary: Virtual PC 7 for Mac Connectix and Microsoft PowerPC x86 Mac OS X
The EFI System partition holds a filesystem and files used by the UEFI, while the BIOS boot partition is used in BIOS-based systems and accessed without a filesystem by holding raw binary code. The size requirements for a BIOS boot partition are quite low so it can be as small as about 30 KiB; however, as future boot loaders might require more ...
The "It's now safe to power off the system" screen in Windows 10 and 11. Microsoft's Windows 98 was the first operating system to implement ACPI, [ 17 ] [ 18 ] but its implementation was somewhat buggy or incomplete, [ 19 ] [ 20 ] although some of the problems associated with it were caused by the first-generation ACPI hardware. [ 21 ]