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June 11th, 2011 14:00
Alenware Aurora Virtualization
Hi,
I have bought an Alienware Aurora. I am trying to run A Snow Leopard Virtual Machine with VmWare. Ihave tried with VMWare Workstation and I receive a message telling "The CPU has been disabled by the Guest Operating System". I am running a Windows 7 Ultimate.
I suppose the problem is that the BIOS is not enabled for Virtualization but I cannot find in BIOS an option to enable it.
How can I make my Aurora run my Virtual machines ???
Thanks in advance.
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mvbaffa
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One more detail. Virtual PC runs perfectly
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June 11th, 2011 17:00
You are right, I don't see the BIOS option on my box either. I think it's probably on by default (why would you ever turn it off). My Dell XPS-410 has the BIOS option.
CPU-Z does report VT-x but I'm not sure if that is a real-time check or just based on the i7-930 processor it detects.
If you are running Microsoft Virtual PC with the latest patch, it will now run without VT-x being available or enabled ... so that's not a good test.
VirtualBox might be a good free test. While it will work either way, I think the option to turn it on will only be available if the VT-X is available to the Host OS for use. Or, if you turn it on and try to start a VM, it will complain on startup if VT-x is not working properly.
What model Aurora, processor and chipset do you have?