Inspiron 1545 P8700 virtualization question

Yes, it supports virtualization:
http://ark.intel.com/Product.aspx?id=37006

Helo Ejn63!

Thank you for your answer, but what you sent is simply states that, the processor itself supports the virtualization. I knew that before I posted my question. But if you read the bottom of the intel page you linked it says the following:

"Intel® Virtualization Technology requires a computer system with a processor, chipset, BIOS, virtual machine monitor (VMM) and for some uses, certain platform software, enabled for it. Functionality, performance or other benefit will vary depending on hardware and software configurations. Intel Virtualization Technology-enabled VMM applications are currently in development."

Practically it means it does not enough if the processor itself support the virtualization, but other parts for example the BIOS, chipset has to support it as well. I also linked a question from this forum:

http://en.community.dell.com/forums/p/19274159/19484016.aspx

where the people said that his inspiron 1545 P8600 was not supporting the virtualization inspite of that the processor in that case also supports it, and he was not able to change this behaviour through the BIOS. But his post is quite old, since that there are new BIOS versions out (the newest one is A13, while he wrote about A05), and the new one may be support it.

So my question is still the same does the whole computer (as a whole and not only the processor) supports the virtualization, or no. If somebody has that kind of computer just has to check it for example this tool tells:

http://www.grc.com/securable.htm

But also there used to be an option in BIOS to enable/disable virtualization, if it supports. (theoreticaly it could be always on, but not usual, i have never seen that kind of BIOS, if there were no option to change it it was not supported by the BIOS)

Thanks

Istvan

I have an Inspiron 1545, and it DOES NOT support Hardware-assisted Virtualization in the BIOS.

I am using both VM Ware and Microsoft Virtual PC 2007 which can install 32-bit versions of Windows O/S; however the 64-bit versions are not supported.