Oh fucking hardware virtualization.
how many times have I failed at setting sth up googled it and just read "check your BIOS ... and enable..."
Well I would IF I FUCKING COULD. THERE AIN'T NOTHING TO ENABLE ON THIS CHEAP CPU.

I know. I know. Should just get a newer setup, this lappy ain't that powerful anyways - but still - it's frustrating to get excited, start sth and than hit that dead end realizing they presupposed sth I don't have.

@AtuM Intel Pentium B960

@AtuM It's a 32nm low cost dual-core laptop chip from 2011. It takes silicon real estate to implement features like vt-d/vt-x, which should basically read as "makes it cost more because of increased fabrication effort". For that processor and the market it targets and the year of release, I agree with Intel here that it's probably not worth the effort.

@Jedidja But that still sucks for you :/. I truly hope you find a way to upgrade. If you're buying older machines to save on cost, you'll find desktop CPUs generally less compromising on features because they have more thermal headroom and chip package area to play with.

@AtuM what does that have to do with silicon usage? I'm talking about active silicon. Sure it might be manufactured using just a few sets of masks, but switching off features on that old and low end a chip looks pretty reasonable to me, it also eases system complexity (and allows you to ignore defects in manufacturing in those areas). If we were talking about a more recent and/or higher end chip then yeah, sure, I'd agree.

Why would Intel make lower end, cheaper chips if it could make higher end chips at the same cost and same TDP? Obviously there's some cost advantage here.