Turn on and off VT in Acer Aspire E5-411

JohnT07
JohnT07 Member Posts: 1 New User
edited August 2023 in 2018 Archives
Hi everyone! I have a Aspire E5-411 my VT is enabled by defualt hovever this does slow my computer a bit and i could not find the virtualization setting in the Bios and I recetly updated my bios according on its SNID or the Model number of this machine. but still Theres no setting that indicates or enables me to turn on/off my VT

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  • IronFly
    IronFly ACE Posts: 18,413 Trailblazer
    Most of recent Acer laptop models support both Hyper-V and VT-x* (not AMD CPU models), they are both enabled even if those options are hidden on BIOS.
    If your laptop has an Intel CPU, you can check if you CPU/system supports virtualization instructions, using Intel Processor Identification Utility:

    If your laptop has an AMD CPU, AMD-V is disabled by default on BIOS and can't be enabled.

    Devices using Windows 10 Home will need to upgrade home to Windows 10 Professional or Enterprise to use Hyper-V. Windows 10 requirements can be found here:
    * If Hyper-V is ON, VT-x will not be available; Hyper-V must be OFF to have VT-x recognised by virtual machines.

    this means that you can't turn OFF VT.
    I'm not an Acer employee.
  • TechRes
    TechRes Member Posts: 11

    Tinkerer
    IronFly said:
    Most of recent Acer laptop models support both Hyper-V and VT-x* (not AMD CPU models), they are both enabled even if those options are hidden on BIOS.
    If your laptop has an Intel CPU, you can check if you CPU/system supports virtualization instructions, using Intel Processor Identification Utility:

    If your laptop has an AMD CPU, AMD-V is disabled by default on BIOS and can't be enabled.

    Devices using Windows 10 Home will need to upgrade home to Windows 10 Professional or Enterprise to use Hyper-V. Windows 10 requirements can be found here:
    * If Hyper-V is ON, VT-x will not be available; Hyper-V must be OFF to have VT-x recognised by virtual machines.

    this means that you can't turn OFF VT.
    Thanks for the information, but this sounds like Acer forcing people to buy Intel to get Virtualization. I just can't believe they can't unlock it in the bios when both the OS and APU support it. 

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