Enabling Hyper-V in HP Z800 BIOS

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Published on 2009-08-13T05:11:19Z Indexed on 2010/05/15 14:44 UTC
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I should be able to enable Hyper-V for my new HP Z800, but I simply cannot find the switch in BIOS. Does anybody know what they've called it this time?

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