---
id: 4435
title: "A virtual journey: From hardware virtualization to Hyper-V's Virtual Trust Levels"
source_domain: blog.quarkslab.com
source_url: "https://blog.quarkslab.com/a-virtual-journey-from-hardware-virtualization-to-hyper-vs-virtual-trust-levels.html"
published_at: "2021-07-28T22:00:00Z"
tags: ["windows", "reverse-engineering", "virtualization", "hyper-v", "security", "vt-x"]
phying_url: "https://phying.com/item/4435"
lang: en
---

# A virtual journey: From hardware virtualization to Hyper-V's Virtual Trust Levels

## Summary

A step-by-step reverse engineering journey into Hyper-V's internals, explaining how Intel VT-x hardware virtualization enables Virtual Trust Levels (VTLs) and memory segregation in Windows.

## Intelligence Metadata

- **Sources:** blog.quarkslab.com
- **Published:** 2021-07-28T22:00:00Z
- **Original:** https://blog.quarkslab.com/a-virtual-journey-from-hardware-virtualization-to-hyper-vs-virtual-trust-levels.html
- **Phying News:** https://phying.com/item/4435