Hello,

I need help from people who have both VGA cable and EX470/475. I would like to know if EX47x's BIOS has a feature that can enable CPU virtualization.

The story is, I have a 3800+ EE SFF installed on my EX470 and I do Virtual Box a lot. I don't know if virtualization is enabled by default in BIOS, but my system always freezes up when Virtual Box (or Microsoft VPC) runs with virtualization enabled in VM software.

I suspect that this may be due to virtualization not being enabled in the BIOS. I don't have a VGA cable so perhaps someone could help me confirm this option exists? Thanks !

I don't remember a setting... It's a little blury but all the settings available are shown in this youtube video

Off the top of my head I do not recall seeing a setting in the EX47x BIOS for virtualization. However this does not mean no setting exists so when I get home tonight I will check the BIOS on an EX470 for you to confirm if it has a virtualization setting or not.

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kkmanm,

I looked through the E470 BIOS Setup and was not able to find any settings for Virtualization. You can check the YOUTUBE link that ymboc posted and see for yourself but as promised I did take a look. If you happen to see something in that video that I may have overlooked when reviewing the BIOS Settings let me know and I will be happy to take a closer look for you.

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VieuxJules

Nice post! While I did look for it I obviously missed it. Glad someone other then myself took the time to look.

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Hi,

Thank you all for confirming this! I can see from the youtube video and the screenshot VieuxJules posted the option is enabled, now I think maybe that option is enabled by default and I have mine enabled too?

VieuxJules (or other people?), do you use VirtualBox or any other VM software? Do you encounter the same freeze up as I do when AMD-V is enabled? I'm still trying to find out why this is happening, if this is not the BIOS's problem, I can save $60 to buy a VGA just to enable virtualization, ha!

Anyways, thank you guys for kindly help!

kkmanm

Unfortunately, I don't make use of virtualization. I could make a test for you, but I'm in Djibouti now, far from my MSS.

The bios menu photos were taken some time ago (took all the pages), to have a picture of the default bios.

Hope someone else can test

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Hello,

My first post and I'm not able to include links to the articles I've found already, so here's the short version: Can someone document the steps to blindly change the BIOS settings to:

1. Disable the onboard flash drive (I don't care if the contents get wiped out)
2. Set primary boot device to be a USB-connected CD drive.
3. Set secondary boot device to be hard disk.

I'm interested in installing a Linux distro on my EX470. If I got to the stage of being able to boot to Darik's Boot And Nuke, I think I can take it from there.

The server doesn't honor the boot order as defined in the BIOS, it is hard coded to boot off the bottom rear USB slot first, then bottom hard drive, then onboard USB flash.

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So I was wondering if I could make the USB connected drive the system drive and have all four slots in the MSS for data drives?

Bert