Activate Virtualization on Dell M1730

[Ryland]

The laptop has a T8300 processor which has the Virtualization extensions but I can't get VirtualBox to actually USE the extensions and I haven't found anything in the bios to turn them on. Has anybody been successful turn on Intel's VT on this machine?

 

[Roliath]

Hmm, you should be able to enable/disable VT in the BIOS under CPU.

Do you have the latest BIOS?

 

[jeremyshaw]

The stock Dell BIOS since 2007 has the option...

(laptops, XPS line, very specifically the M1210)

 

[Ryland]

I looked through the bios and didn't see any mention of it in there. I could always take another look now that I know what specific section it is in (although I did look in there in particular and didn't see anything). One other thing, there is a posting on the Dell forum's about this issue on the M1730 with the A10 bios in which the OP says that there isn't a menu item to enable VT.

 

[Ryland]

I just found it, the virtualization option is under POST Behaviour.

Thanks all.

 

[aaronearles]

Yeah, HP puts it under the Security section on some of our models, kinda funny.