How to turn on Hardware Assisted Virtualization

re: How to turn on Hardware Assisted Virtualization

JC — Wed, 01 May 2013 18:12:31 GMT

My understanding, while Acer does not provide a switch for hardware virtualization in the BIOS, the commercial Travelmate notebooks and Veriton desktops have it hardware virtualization turned on by default -- no need to turn it on.

Of course the Intel tools to detect will confirm ...

re: How to turn on Hardware Assisted Virtualization

simi — Fri, 08 Apr 2011 19:13:02 GMT

pls i'm using an hp dv6 and i urgently nid 2 enable hardware virtualization

re: How to turn on Hardware Assisted Virtualization

John Howard -MSFT — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 18:25:08 GMT

Prasad - you need to ask Dell or look on their support site. I can't be specific about each and every machine, whether they support VT, and how it is turned on. Please note though that no laptop are technically supported by Microsoft for running Hyper-V.

re: How to turn on Hardware Assisted Virtualization

Prasad — Sun, 04 Apr 2010 07:10:40 GMT

I have dell Inspiron 1545 laptop how to enable hardware virtualization prasad.psd@gmail.com

re: How to turn on Hardware Assisted Virtualization

John Howard -MSFT — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 06:30:41 GMT

PeetR - This is something you'd need to follow up with Acer. They own the BIOS and the BIOS has to have support for virtualization hardware assistance, as well as the processor. If it's not exposed in the BIOS, Acer may simply not support it on that box. You can confirm on the Intel site using the CPU identification utility whether or not the specific processor has VT support itself. It's always worth trying to upgrade to the latest BIOS regardless - maybe they have introduced it.

But I should mention, that laptops are not supported by Microsoft for running Windows Server operating systems. They may work, but there is no support.. Just wanted to make that clear.

Thanks,

John.

re: How to turn on Hardware Assisted Virtualization

PeetR — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 14:15:35 GMT

I have Acer Extensa 5610. There is „Intel Core 2 Duo / T550 1,66GHz” processor in the notebook. I have’t founded how know turned the processor’s hardware virtualization. I refreshed the bios, but I didn’t know turn on this function, because wasn’t menu in bios, turned on this. I runed SecurAble, and this is showed, that Hardware Virtualization was locked but processor is know HV.

I wrote Acer and Intel Corporation but, they wasn't helping me.

Do somebody helping me?

Thanx,

PeetR

re: How to turn on Hardware Assisted Virtualization

John Howard -MSFT — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 08:08:24 GMT

Ramu - TBH, you would need to contact ASUS to determine if this machine is capable of running Hyper-V. However, even if it is, I suspect it a desktop style board rather than a supported server? I would note that in my experience, generally there is no hardware virtualization option in the BIOS of AMD machines - it generally is on if it is available.

Cheers,

JOhn.

re: How to turn on Hardware Assisted Virtualization

Ramu — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 08:34:32 GMT

Hi Gerardo,

I'm using ASUS M2A VM mother and AMD Phenom 9730 processor. Can you please tell me how to enable Hardware Virtualization?

re: How to turn on Hardware Assisted Virtualization

Ramu — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 09:18:36 GMT

Sorry i was talking about Virtual PC.

Anyway thanks for your advice John..

re: How to turn on Hardware Assisted Virtualization

John Howard -MSFT — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 08:30:27 GMT

Ramu - are you talking about Virtual PC or Hyper-V. If you do really mean VPC, I would recommend you post on the Technet Forums as I would not be able to assist. If Hyper-V, then I may be able to assist. However, in either case, I would need details of the stop code you are hitting and a dump file.

Thanks,

John.