Sony Vaio Have VT Disable; No Win 7 XP Mode
Even if there's VT, there is no VT.
One of the great things about Windows 7 Professional and Ultimate is XP Mode. Windows 7 will run a virtual Windows XP so that the OS can maintain full compatibility for old applications that don't work in Vista or 7.
In order for XP Mode to run, however, the CPU must have virtualization support and the feature must also be enabled in the BIOS.
While one would think that being able support virtualization is a great feature and selling point, Sony seems to be intentionally disabling it on its Vaio computers due to security concerns. Whatever those concerns may be, other manufacturers don't appear to be worried enough to cripple their own systems.
Xavier Lauwaert, Senior Manager Product Marketing at Sony, explained in a comment on the Windows blog, "Contrary to perceived opinion, we have received very little if any requests to enable VT technology up until very recently.
"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."
Lauwaert added that with the advent of XP virtualization, Sony will be reevaluating its stance on the technology and will be enabling the feature on select models.
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I presume it can be enabled?
Then it's just the difference between opt-in and opt-out.
Sony concerned about code that could go 'very deep into the operating structure of the PC'
anyone remmeber the sony audio cd XCP rootkit scandal...... hmm.....
They will probably charge for it as an aditional feature later on... Sony are almost as bad as Apple - they have their own "Sony tax", which was OK when they had good stuff like the Trinitron screen and other premium brands like the original Walkman, but recently they have been caught up by other manufacturers and the whole company is being proped up by the Playstation in its various guises.
Here is what I would do if I wanted a Sony. Take it to the geek sqaund, ask them to start it up into BIOS, turn on VT, then I will buy it. If everybody that buys a Sony would do that, Sony would get the crap from the vendors. If you do not make the vendors happy, sales go down the drain.
It already can be quite easily hacked and VT enabled. It's actually a Bios thing, so there are ways to flash the Bios. If anyone is interested try googling it, or check on forums like "notebook review" .com