XPS 8960, BIOS 1.4.0, no virtualization?

How To Enable or Disable Hardware Virtualization on Dell Systems

@DELL-Chris M​ Thanks a lot.
Disappointed to find out that my Dell XPS 8960 might not support virtualization, even though it has an i7-13700K which does and has high performance on it. I thought virtualization would be a given with this CPU. If I had known earlier, I might have reconsidered my purchase. Can anyone confirm if the XPS 8960 actually supports virtualization and how to enable it if it does? It's really important for my work.

FWIW, I don't see virtualization listed in the XPS 8960 Service Manual as a BIOS setup option...

This question intrigued me, so with my XPS 8960 I went to Start > Windows Tools > Hyper-V Quick Create and now I have Ubuntu 18 LTS. Looks kind of interesting ...

@Vince314​ As to Intel's specification of your i7-13700K your CPU supports Intel Virtualization Technology (VT-x), but your BIOS doesn't have a virtualization setting? That's weird.
I have the same problem now with a Dell XPS 8960 and an i7-14700 CPU.
Very disappointing, this fact was not mentioned in Dell's online shop.

Tesla1856 says here:
Typically, when an option/feature is missing from the BIOS (that the CPU actually supports) it means it is always on (and can not be disabled).
I checked the Task-Manager on my machine, switched to Performance tab and clicked on CPU section.
Here I can see that virtualization is activated. My VirtualBox 7.0.22 must be slow due to a different reason.

Here is my XPS 8960 Windows 11 23H2 Host trying a VMware Ubuntu 24.10 Guest:

According to Intel for the i7-13700:

However the settings in the BIOS Setup are very limited:

Here is the Performance Options:

So it seems like Dell have disabled Virtualisation Technologies by default and don't have a way to add it. 

@Philip_Yip​ 

Have you looked at this Dell link --->https://www.dell.com/support/kbdoc/en-in/000195980/how-to-enable-or-disable-windows-virtualization-on-dell-systems? Do you see that in Programs and Features?

I have an XPS8940 and the 2 settings for enabling Virtualization is there it seems?

Both they options are present and enabled but the virtualised Intel VT-x/EPT is not supported still displays in VMware Workstation Player.

I'm facing the same Problem as @Philip_Yip .  Is there any workarounds?

Just received my dell xps 8960 and thought i had the same problem cause my bios is the same (no virtualization setting) but it seems virtualization is set as default. Windows says it is enable and i just tried to create a new vm on virtual box (lubuntu 24) and it worked.

It seems that there are no workarounds right now, and it will not be fixed anytime soon......disappointing.