[SOLVED] Vostros 200 Dell No VT in Bios

kb2tfa · 10-13-2015, 04:33 PM

I have a dell desktop with 64 bit Fedora 22 running on it. I have installed the 64 bit version of VirtualBox. However when I run VirtBox it will only allow 32 bit visualization. Looking around google it appears the problem lies within the bios. There is no VT option anywhere. I even booted from a windows partition to find the same issues (only 32 vt). I even updated the bios from the dell site on the windows partition, and still nothing. I normally wouldn't care if its 32 or 64, but I need a CentOS 7 VT for practice. I'm working on LPIC certs. I'm starting to think it's just not possible on this machine. Anybody have any input?

Code:

[ron@vostro-200 ~]$ uname -a
Linux vostro-200 4.1.10-200.fc22.x86_64 #1 SMP Mon Oct 5 14:22:49 UTC 2015 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Timothy Miller · 10-13-2015, 04:39 PM

Did you check if it's enabled in the Bios, or even if that processor supports it (which it would help if you said what the processor was)?

kb2tfa · 10-13-2015, 04:46 PM

Can't enable in bios as there is no VT option. Here is cpuinfo. What should I look for in the cpuinfo to see if it's compatible.

Code:

processor	: 0
vendor_id	: GenuineIntel
cpu family	: 6
model		: 15
model name	: Intel(R) Pentium(R) Dual  CPU  E2160  @ 1.80GHz
stepping	: 13
microcode	: 0xa4
cpu MHz		: 1200.000
cache size	: 1024 KB
physical id	: 0
siblings	: 2
core id		: 0
cpu cores	: 2
apicid		: 0
initial apicid	: 0
fpu		: yes
fpu_exception	: yes
cpuid level	: 10
wp		: yes
flags		: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe syscall nx lm constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts rep_good nopl aperfmperf pni dtes64 monitor ds_cpl est tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr pdcm lahf_lm dtherm
bugs		:
bogomips	: 3591.35
clflush size	: 64
cache_alignment	: 64
address sizes	: 36 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
power management:

processor	: 1
vendor_id	: GenuineIntel
cpu family	: 6
model		: 15
model name	: Intel(R) Pentium(R) Dual  CPU  E2160  @ 1.80GHz
stepping	: 13
microcode	: 0xa4
cpu MHz		: 1800.000
cache size	: 1024 KB
physical id	: 0
siblings	: 2
core id		: 1
cpu cores	: 2
apicid		: 1
initial apicid	: 1
fpu		: yes
fpu_exception	: yes
cpuid level	: 10
wp		: yes
flags		: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe syscall nx lm constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts rep_good nopl aperfmperf pni dtes64 monitor ds_cpl est tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr pdcm lahf_lm dtherm
bugs		:
bogomips	: 3591.35
clflush size	: 64
cache_alignment	: 64
address sizes	: 36 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
power management:

TobiSGD · 10-13-2015, 05:02 PM

The E2160 does not have support for hardware virtualization, so you are out of luck here.

kb2tfa · 10-13-2015, 05:10 PM

thank you, I'll quit pulling my hair out.