You need newer hardware to use shielded virtual machines or discrete device assignment. Those features rely on specific hardware support, as described below. Other than that, the main difference in hardware is that second-level address translation (SLAT) is now required instead of recommended. This system is more than 10 years behind the curve and is not UEFI its old Bios for windows VISTA and 7.
mynamegoezhere
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December 20th, 2018 18:00
And as far as I can tell the bios number goes up with revision. Everything suggests a11 is the latest, but I am still unsure.
speedstep
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December 21st, 2018 10:00
Dell part numbers are NOT specs.
Dell Alienware Aurora ALX Motherboard 4VWF2 MS-7591 CN-04VWF2
This is a VERY EARLY LGA 1366 Aurora.
This is not an ESX Server so virtualization would be VT-X end of story.
You cannot have future features in a vaacuum tube PC.
This system WILL NOT RUN current Microsoft Virtualization Hyper-V or VMWARE virtualization. SLAT is not supported nor is VT-D and INTEL Security etc.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/virtualization/hyper-v/system-requirements-for-hyper-v-on-windows
You need newer hardware to use shielded virtual machines or discrete device assignment. Those features rely on specific hardware support, as described below. Other than that, the main difference in hardware is that second-level address translation (SLAT) is now required instead of recommended. This system is more than 10 years behind the curve and is not UEFI its old Bios for windows VISTA and 7.
For details about maximum supported configurations for Hyper-V, such as the number of running virtual machines, see Plan for Hyper-V scalability in Windows Server 2016. The list of operating systems you can run in your virtual machines is covered in Supported Windows guest operating systems for Hyper-V on Windows Server.