Virtualization not Supported, BIOS missing virtualization

[CoolAB]

In my system BIOS virtualization option is missing. After research found that my system doesn't support virtualization.

Laptop model : HP DV6-1152TX Processor : Processor type - Intel Core 2 Duo Processor T6400 * 2.0 GHz, 2 MB L2 Cache, 800 MHz FSB BIOS version : F.25 Operating System : Windows 8.1 pro 64 bit

Please let me know best way to resolve this issue? If I have to change the CPU what are the specifications I need to consider? Does virtualization is essential for Cloudera Quickstart VM. Is there some way one can use Cloudera Quickstart VM without using virtualization or upgrading BIOS and CPU.

Thanks,

[Martin]

Your CPU doesn't support VT-x, so you would need to swap it.
But it probably won't help because the BIOS is missing a setting to activate it anyway.

It looks like you would need a newer system.

[mpack]

All of the QuickStart VMs are 64bit. Cloudera (CDH5) itself is apparantly 64bit only, so I'm afraid the answer is no: there is no way to run this in a VirtualBox VM on a host which doesn't support hardware virtualization.

[BillG]

Cloudera Quickstart is a large powerful program. I doubt that it would even run directly on your machine, let alone as a vm on it.