How to enable virtualization on HP Elitebook 8470p?

[Tasser]

Hello all,

I've been looking for the answer to this question and I'm completely stumped. I am trying to enable intel hardware virtualization for my HP Elitebook 8470p. First off, I know that my computer supports virtualization and it is currently disabled (I checked using Speccy). Now I know that the way to do this is to go in through bios upon restart but the Bios startup for my machine is extremely odd. When I press escape upon startup and I press f10 I am prompted to enter the system password. I have no menu or no options, just my login name and a password box. So I put in my password and the box pops up again. Essentially I put in my password 4 times and finally it brings me to a gray screen with the HP logo in the corner and the only option says something like press f7 for recovery diagnostics or something. I am getting no menu in my bios screen to even progress so I just don't know what to do. Again, I know virtualization is supported on my computer, I just don't know how to enable it. Any help would be much appreciated.

[GBL84]

I understand you want to enable virtualization in BIOS.

When you access the BIOS menu you should toggle over to Security, then head down to System security and the option to enable the Virtualisation Technology (VTx/VTd) feature should be listed there.

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[SleekWeasel]

The instructions on enabling virtualisation are here:  https://msdn.microsoft.com/library/windows/apps/jj863509(v=vs.105).aspx and refer to SLAT (NP,RVI/EPT), Hardware Assisted Virtualisation (SVM/VMX), and Data Execution Prevention (NX/XD). Also, VT-D and Trusted Execution.

When I enter the BIOS as a 'guest' user and look at the f10 bios settings, they talk in terms of other technologies, although I'm guessing that VTd is VT-D.

It would be really helpful if you could translate the HP terms to the terms Microsoft seem to favour.

Like... is HP-Virtualisation really just another name for GenuineIntelHypervisor? It requires VTd, but the page explicitly stays to turn VTd off, so that seems unlikely.

Perhaps HP have made their EliteBook incompatible with Windows 8.1 phone development.

[SleekWeasel]

Some combination of updating the BIOS and clearing then resetting the Windows settings mentioned in the document to which I linked above got the phone simulator working.

I'm still confused that responsibility for 'Booting HP Hypervisor fails' was disclaimed by HP phone support, who said it was a Microsoft product (?!), but it seems I didn't need 'HP Hypervisor' enabled anyhow.