I have a Dell Latitute D820. And I run VPC for all the development I'm doing now.
I drove me crazy that the Hardware Virtualization check box was grayed out with this DUO Core2 baby. After some research and upgrading, I finally got it work! Here is some advise in case you have same laptop and run VPC2007 too.
There are four things you need to check and do something about it if you haven't:
- Download and install the latest BISO from DELL it's revision A6 as of today. My D820 came with A5.
- After upgrade your BIOS, you will see a new line in your BIOS configuration when you hold F2 key when boot. You know what to do with it, don't you?
- This is the trick one. Before you can enable the Hardware Virtualization check box in the 'Setting' for your specific VPC machine, you have to enable it at your 'Virtual PC Options'!
- Go to Virtual PC Console
- Under 'File' menu, and then 'Options'
- The 3rd line from top!
- Now you can enable it in your VPC machine's 'Setting'
Enjoy it!