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    (M1530) Hardware Virtualization not Available in x64 OS?

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by rahx, Apr 23, 2008.

  1. rahx

    rahx Notebook Consultant

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    Hi all,

    I've been looking around about how to enable the Intel Virtualization Technology on my M1530. The processor I'm using is T9300 which, I believe, does have IVT support.

    However when I ran Virtual PC 2007, it just reported that Hardware Virtualization is not available. First I thought it might have been disabled in BIOS and since I remember reading somewhere that the latest A08 BIOS has an option to enable and disable VT, I loaded up the BIOS screen but I just couldn't seem to find anything related to virtualization...

    I've also downloaded GRC's Seruable. It reported that VT is indeed supported on my system, but it couldn't determine the state because of the x64 OS it's running on.

    I have the latest A08 BIOS and am running x64 Vista Home Premium (yes, I know it's not "officially" supported by MS, but VPC is still runnable). Am I missing something?
     
    rahx, Apr 23, 2008
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  2. Greg

    Greg Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    You might want to try a trial copy of VMWare workstation. Its free for a little while, and does work well under any OS. After you set up your OS VM and install VMWare Tools, you can continue to use the OS under the FREE VMWare Player.
     
    Greg, Apr 23, 2008
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    nobscot6 Wise One

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    i've used vmware workstation and it does support 64bit Windows Vista as host and guest operating systems........... sweet!!

    the trial period is 30 days........
     
    nobscot6, Apr 23, 2008
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  4. Greg

    Greg Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    That means you have 30 days to install the OS, configure the RAM/HDD/GPU sizes, and install VMWare tools. After that, you can just use the VMWare player.

    It takes all of a few hours to set up, which is nothing for a 30 day trial.
     
    Greg, Apr 23, 2008
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  5. rahx

    rahx Notebook Consultant

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    Great. Thank you guys for the help :)

    One more question, does VMWare have DirectX, more specifically Direct3D, support now? Last time I checked, they were working on a beta/test version.
     
    rahx, Apr 24, 2008
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