Sony Vaio Have VT Disable; No Win 7 XP Mode

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I got picked up my new Sony Vaio Z today... cost me a tonne, and its brand new and current.... Why arent they planning to support VT on the top of the line Z series. I need it... I need to run VT as a developer to use multiple OS's to develop on - DAMN U SONY.

 

[Guest]

Just goto
http://feature-enable.blogspot.com/2009/07/enable-vt-on-insydeh2o-based-sony-vaio.html

 

[Guest]

Sony had released a BIOS upgrade on some models already to enable the VT on the BIOS.

 

[Guest]

Where is the upgrade found I know of no such upgrade from Sony. It is possible to fix this issue using a zip file found at http://jbarton.virtualkingdoms.net/usbBoot.zip and http://blog.steelooper.com/2009/07/enabling-virtualization-on-sony-vaio.html

just make a usb boot disk using the files in the zip and then find your register information on steelopers blog

 

[Guest]

I am really disappointed that VT is turned off on Sony laptops. I was planning to replace my older VAIO with Z890. Called the US pre-sales support number. The Sony support person confirmed that VT is turned off for Z series laptops. He was not aware of any planned fix. I really do not understand this type of behavior. Does Sony think they can simply slide this by their customers or they simply ignored customer driven design? And what does Xavier Lauwaert mean when he mentions "In addition, our engineers and QA people were very concerned that enabling VT would expose our systems to malicious code that could go very deep in the Operating System structure of the PC and completely disable the latter." (http://windowsteamblog.com/blogs/partner/archive/2009/07/29/sony-executive-weighs-in-on-win7.aspx. Is Sony's engineering capability that weak? Are they not up to the design challenges or others (Toshiba, HP and Dell) are better in designing or less concerned about end user security? BTW, I have experienced design issues with VAIO laptops in the past: noisy fan, frequently failing HDD, less than optimal touch pad and inability to upgrade video drivers for ATI cards. What gives? Sony is walking away from "customer satisfaction", hallmark of great Japanese companies, altogether? Or disregarding "customer satisfaction and requirements" a new trend and strategy for new Sony with Howard Stringer at the helm?

 

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Sony Vaio's and many other intel notebooks don't have virtualization enabled on their intel chips so you cant run XP mode on windows 7. (I believe all AMD's do. I overcame the problem of virtualization on my Sony Vaio by installing the free Sun Virtual box software. It runs faster and better than VM ware or Microsoft virtual PC (and did I mention its free!!) and does not require hardware virtualization. I then installed Win XP and it runs seamlessly on my win7 home edition OS as a window on the desktop. My windows apps then run on XP with only a slight delay that is acceptable to me. Now I have the best of both worlds: Win 7 and XP on a Sony Vaio. http://www.virtualbox.org/. I could now run as many additional operating systems I want using Virtual box. Go Sun!!!!