Is there an upgrade to HP Pavilion Elite HPE supporting VT-x
by mfoley from LinuxQuestions.org on (#4VZPV)
I've dusted off an old HP Pavilion Elite HPE to stage and test a virtual machine. I'm running Slackware64 14.2 and VirtualBox. This computer has an Intel i7 920 2.67GHz processor. The specs. indicate this processor supports VT-x virtualization. However, the BIOS in this computer does not have a setting to enable that. Questions:
Does anyone know if there is there a BIOS upgrade available with at VT-x setting?
Even if an upgrade is available from HP, they generally come in the form of .exe files run from Windows. I'm running Linux. That may be a problem.
Is there possibly something/somewhere I can "poke" into memory or a system register while booted Linux that would enable VT-x?
Info:
BIOS Revision 5.28 4/9/10
Core Version 08.00.15
Model Number HPE-180t
Product AZ222AV-ABA
Does anyone know if there is there a BIOS upgrade available with at VT-x setting?
Even if an upgrade is available from HP, they generally come in the form of .exe files run from Windows. I'm running Linux. That may be a problem.
Is there possibly something/somewhere I can "poke" into memory or a system register while booted Linux that would enable VT-x?
Info:
BIOS Revision 5.28 4/9/10
Core Version 08.00.15
Model Number HPE-180t
Product AZ222AV-ABA