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I have the aforementioend motherboard and it appears that hardware virtualization is disabled on it (as according to vmware). I've looked at the bios options as well as the manual and haven't found any option to be able to turn it on. Am I buggered or is there something I'm missing?
meds
Posted 2011-08-12T15:18:40.007
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On most P8P67 motherboards (you don't specify which), this should be under Advanced - CPU Configuration - Intel Virtualization Technology. If you don't have this option, then your processor probably doesn't support it.
Shinrai
Posted 2011-08-12T15:18:40.007
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thank you, it was there! Would have been wierd if it didn't, my older i5 and gigabyte mobo had support for it.. – meds – 2011-08-12T16:12:56.890
hardware virtualization is called VT-d, and x86 virtualization is called VT-x. – Breakthrough – 2011-08-12T15:22:00.560
what cpu on the motherboard? – guido – 2011-08-12T15:31:01.687
Core i7, obviously socket 1155 – meds – 2011-08-12T15:35:26.703
If you're sure you CPU supports virtualization and your BIOS gives no options for enabling/disabling it, take a look at the product page for your motherboard and read up on the bios updates, maybe they exposed that option on a later version. You can also boot a Linux distro and run 'cat /proc/cpuinfo' and see if virtualization instructions are listed. – James T Snell – 2011-08-12T15:39:38.403