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BIOS update for Inspiron 518 that provides Virtualization support
I recently purchased a quadcore Inspiron 518.
I was really disappointed to find out that there is no virtualization support in the BIOS it came with, (should have done more research.)
Are there any plans for a release to update the BIOS that would include this feature? Or any work arounds I can do in order to have virtualization support from the motherboard/processor?
Thanks,
Doug
AaronMilbrath
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November 17th, 2009 20:00
I am also interested in any news on this. I have Windows 7 Professional and was hoping to use the virtualization for Windows XP Mode. As it stands right now, I cannot enable it in the BIOS as it is not visible anywhere.
AaronMilbrath
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November 17th, 2009 21:00
I updated to the latest BIOS - from 1.0.3 to 1.0.8 - and powered off the computer (restart is not enough) and now it appears to work fine.
tgsmith
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January 23rd, 2011 02:00
DR2008,
The Inspiron 518 BIOS update version 1.0.8 is here: http://support.dell.com/support/downloads/download.aspx?c=us&cs=19&l=en&s=dhs&releaseid=R215480&SystemID=INSP_DSKTP_518&servicetag=&os=WV64&osl=en&deviceid=308&devlib=0&typecnt=0&vercnt=2&catid=-1&impid=-1&formatcnt=0&libid=1&typeid=-1&dateid=-1&formatid=-1&source=-1&fileid=305654
Tony
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October 3rd, 2016 19:00
I just flashed the BIOS to 1.0.8, shut it down completely (even unplugged it and power cycled), then went into the BIOS setup and I'm still not seeing it.
ejn63
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October 4th, 2016 05:00
What model CPU does your system have?
speedstep
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October 7th, 2016 19:00
Its not the bios SLAT is required now.
So it will NEVER work with HYPER V
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/1401.hyper-v-list-of-slat-capable-cpus-for-hosts.aspx