On Mon, 2010-02-01 at 08:47 +0000, Jonathan Wiltshire wrote: > On Tue, Jan 05, 2010 at 02:53:57AM +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > According to <http://ark.intel.com/Product.aspx?id=36500#specs>, there > > are some variants of the E7400 which do not support VT-x. These are > > distinguished by 'Ordering Code' and 'SPEC Code'; I assume one or both > > of these codes are shown on the processor packaging. Please check > > whether you have one of these variants. > > Sadly I can't find the original box (I suspect it's been thrown away in a > fit of tidying over the holiday) so I can't be sure about which processor I > have, but looking at the original invoice there's a good chance it's the > cheapest of the lot, which doesn't have vmx. > > Thanks for the specs page, which I hadn't seen, and sorry for wasting your > time, There is another thing you could check. Apparently on some BIOSes you need to enable Trusted Execution for VT-x to work. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Beware of programmers who carry screwdrivers. - Leonard Brandwein
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