Tuesday, December 7, 2010

Enabling virtualization support for Dell Latitude E6400

At work, I have a Dell Latitude E6400 laptop running Windows XP (32-bit). In order to run 64-bit VirtualBox machines, I needed to enable virtualization support. Here’s how to do this:

1. When booting up, select F12
2. Select BIOS setup
3. In the Virtualization Support tree:
    - Virtualization, select Enable, Apply
    - VT for Direct I/O Access, select Enable, Apply
    - Trusted Execution, do not select Enable
4. Select Exit to continue booting into Windows.