P45D3 Platinum and Intel VT

Question

Hi,
I run a P45D3 Platinum board with a Q8200 CPU and 8Gb of RAM. I am running the latest bios for my card as of this writing: AMI v1.6 and cannot find a way to enable the Intel VT feature. This is preventing me from running 64 bit kernels in guest Virtual Machines on Windows Vista 64 host with VMWare server 2.0.1.
I also tried the UEFI BIOS with little success as my OCZ RAM does not bode well with UEFI BIOS version 1.2
Any pointer appreciated,
Eric

Answer 1

Hi,
actually, Virtualization Technology should be automatically enabled by default if it is supported by the processor.  And here comes the crucial point:
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Q8200
According to the Intel Product Site, this processor does not support VT (neither of its versions does):
http://processorfinder.intel.com/details.aspx?sSpec=SLG9T
http://processorfinder.intel.com/details.aspx?sSpec=SLG9S
http://processorfinder.intel.com/details.aspx?sSpec=SLB5M
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Supported Features:
# Quad Core
# Enhanced Intel Speedstep® Technology
# Intel® EM64T 1
# Enhanced Halt State (C1E)
# Execute Disable Bit 2
# Intel® Thermal Monitor 2
For Comparison, this is the Feature list of the Q9300:
http://processorfinder.intel.com/details.aspx?sSpec=SLAWE
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Supported Features:
# Quad Core
# Enhanced Intel Speedstep® Technology
# Intel® EM64T 1
# Intel® Virtualization Technology
# Enhanced Halt State (C1E)
# Execute Disable Bit 2
# Intel® Thermal Monitor 2
...which supports VT.
Have a look here as well:
http://ark.intel.com/cpu.aspx?groupId=36547