How to turn on Hardware Assisted Virtualization

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re: How to turn on Hardware Assisted Virtualization

Nick — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 20:09:40 GMT

If you're looking for where to turn this on on an HPDL380 G5, it lives here in the BIOS:

Enable DEP: Advanced>Processor Options>No-Execute Memory

The hardware virtualization feature lives there too under Processor Options.

Both need to be enabled.

http://addicted-to-it.blogspot.com/2008/01/windows-2008-with-hyper-v-hypervisor-is.html

re: How to turn on Hardware Assisted Virtualization

Thomas Tomiczek — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 07:03:57 GMT

Asus M2A-VM ;) AMD chipset, Bios can turn virtualization on or off ;)

Just to let you know - there is at least one board with AMD and bios control.

re: How to turn on Hardware Assisted Virtualization

jhoward — Sat, 16 Feb 2008 19:24:35 GMT

I stand corrected. Thanks Thomas.

Cheers

John.

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Mark's Windows Server Blog — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 02:50:40 GMT

It took me months to convince my manager that I need a new laptop. Then it took me a few more to convince

Useful Hyper-V links

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In the week or so since Hyper-V RTMed there has been a huge amount of coverage on various websites. Here's

re: How to turn on Hardware Assisted Virtualization

Gerardo — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 23:46:27 GMT

With Asus M2NPV-VM, upgrade BIOS and then you can enable Hardware Virtualization

re: How to turn on Hardware Assisted Virtualization

Jamie — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 13:04:12 GMT

Can software tools running in windows turn on NX?

I'm trying to enable NX on my HP6715b laptop, but the BIOS menus are so hopelessly simple that such fancy options aren't available. Frustrating, since AMD's CPUInfo reports that my processor (Turion64 X2) supports it, but that it isn't enabled.

I had all but given up any hope of using Hyper-V on my laptop, until I installed MS Virtual PC and noticed that it said hardware virtualisation was available and enabled. I loaded up CPUInfo again, and sure enough, Secure Virtual Mode was now suddenly turned on. I quit Virtual PC and CPUInfo and checked again, now Secure Virtual Mode was off. On, off. On, off, seemingly controlled by MS Virtual PC.

My question is this - if silly little MS Virtual PC can manage to turn on Secure Virtual Mode (which I thought could only be done from the BIOS), why can't the Hypervisor do this before it starts, thus (hopefully) allowing me to use Hyper-V??

(as an aside, if MS Virtual PC really is turning on NX, does that mean that malware also can do this and make the PC susceptable to Blue-Pill viruses?)

-Jamie

re: How to turn on Hardware Assisted Virtualization

jhoward — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 21:20:40 GMT

Jamie - if they exist, they would be supplied by your OEM. However, I'm not aware of a Turion X2 laptop which runs Hyper-V on F2 stepping processors due to a BIOS workaround which most vendors have not implemented. This is a different requirement to Virtual PC and Virtual Server. Note that no Microsoft virtualization solution changes the BIOS settings - it takes advantage of the settings if they are suitable for the solution and are previously enabled.

Thanks,

John.

re: How to turn on Hardware Assisted Virtualization

Ramu — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 08:18:58 GMT

I've been searching for this post...

I'm using Asus M2A-VM and AMD Phenom processor, when i try to use the VPC on my machine, it will show a blue screen and keep on rebooting...

Please help me what could be reason, and how to turn on the virtualization (step by step)...

Regards,

Ramu

re: How to turn on Hardware Assisted Virtualization

jhoward — 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.

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

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

jhoward — 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

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

jhoward — 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.