Laptops and hardware virtualization

[me-5yx05kfkO/aqeI1yJSURBw at public.gmane.org (Matthew Gillen)]

On 2/14/2010 9:55 AM, Jerry Feldman wrote:
> My wife has a Toshiba Satellite L505, but that has an Intel Core 2 Duo
> T6600 that does not have VT technology:
> http://ark.intel.com/Product.aspx?id=37255&processor=T6600&spec-codes=SLGF5
> 
> The bottom line is that to effectively utilize the Virtualization
> technology that is in the CPU whether AMD or Intel, you need to have the
> chipsets and a way to enable the feature. While I have not actually
> checked it out, I understand that some Dell laptops have the chipset
> support, but not the BIOS support, so you might need a script to enable
> the feature.

The wording I used was ambiguous as to whether the BIOS supported hw
virt: all the Dells I've seen were able to enable it via a BIOS option.

Matt