Alienware x51 R2 and Intel Virtualization

Question

Hello, I have on my Alienware x51 R2 latest BIOS A10. However, I can't get virtualization to work. I've been searching in BIOS for option to turn it on, but there is nothing about virtualization. Mine CPU (i7-4770) definitely supports virtualization, so why is the BIOS limiting that feature? There's also screen of CPU Identification Utility: Comeon guys @ Dell, the Alienware x51 R2 is expensive and powerful PC. Why are you limiting CPU features at all? I would really like if you could implement Intel Virtualization into next BIOS update. Thanks in advance, Josef.

PepinCZ · Accepted Answer

So the problem wasn't in BIOS, but was in Windows 10 instead.

Hyper-V was enabled by default, and I didn't noticed. (Because I never used it..)

So the solution is turning off Hyper-V. You can do that via cmd by this command:

bcdedit /set hypervisorlaunchtype off

Tesla1856 · Answer

Yes, it does seem to be supported at the processor level.

www.windowscentral.com/how-update-windows-10-over-usb

What VT package are you trying to run? What is the error you get?

Even if not running a Microsoft VT solution, maybe see what this tool reports:

www.microsoft.com/.../details.aspx

While it might be disabled or unsupported in BIOS ... sometimes these advanced features are just On ALWAYS ... so no reason to have an option to turn it off. I don't have an x51-R2 here to test, but just saying it might be a possible explanation.

PepinCZ · Answer

Thanks Tesla1856 for fast answer.

As you can see from this image, even MS VT tool can't detect it.

As I said earlier, I'm running the newest version of BIOS. It doesn't make sense to disable it at all tho...

But maybe it's just a BIOS bug? (hopefuly)

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