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I have a HP DV5 laptop with windows 7 64bit entp.  Processor is intel Dou P7350. BIOS Ver. F21

im trying to do my lab for VCP cert when i open my ESXi and Windows 2008 64 bit into VMWARE workstation i get the attacted .docx on the case. Someone told me to enable the VT extensions on my BIOS setting. but i dont have that option with this Laptop. Do you guys have a work arround on this issue??  I will really really appreciate the help.  
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Hi

Sometimes some LAPTOP brands remove the VT enable from BIOS(Acer is one example), but in your case the problem is the CPU itself.

P7350 is not a VT-x enable.

http://ark.intel.com/products/36750/Intel-Core2-Duo-Processor-P7350-%283M-Cache-2_00-GHz-1066-MHz-FSB%29

So you cannot use nested VMs to work with.

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Hi

Forget to mention that you can run Windows 32-bits VMs

Take a look at this KB from VMware

http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1003945

Jail
Which exact HP DV5 model do you have?  (it's on the sticker underneath - it'll be something like DV5-1032eg)   The DV5 line apparently comes in a very wide variety of models.

Looking at the 1032eg model (which I picked because it has the processor you specified), the Setup utility shows a System Configuration page which has an option for Virtualization Technology (enable/disable).

See page 107 of this manual:  http://h10032.www1.hp.com/ctg/Manual/c01550108.pdf

The manual does say "some menu items may not be supported by your computer" which is why I ask for the exact DV5 model number.

The latest BIOS for the 1032eg is F21A - I presume that's what you have, and just left the A off when you typed it.   If not, check if there's a newer BIOS for your model.

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@AlanJayWeiner regardless the BIOS version, or LAPTOP model, if the CPU is Intel P7350, this CPU is not VT supported. So will not work.

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AlanjayWeiner: model number dv-1000us.  I tried looking for the F.21A ver, but no look.  Any ideas?  Please help.

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If you CPU doesn't support VT, you can only run Unix based VM's
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