Enable Virtualization on dell laptop

Virtualization is the next big thing in PC industry. The intel Core2 cpu already support that.

However, the virtualization is disabled at BIOS level by default on dell laptop.
For my case, sometime, i am running WinXP and Linux together , So i want the WinXP running on one CPU and Linux running on the other CPU separately.
By disable this feature, the VMPlayer can still work. But it will give you warning message during start up.


To check out if the virtualization is enabled or not.
use the following command:
'$cat /proc/cpuinfo'
Check the flags section of the output. If there is vmx flag, that means the vmx has been enabled.

To enable virtualization in BIOS for Dell 9400,
"Post behavior->Virtualization->Enable"


Enjoy!