VT extensions on 2 Duo, please add bios support!!

[brunof]

Hello,

I'm a new happy Vaio user, never had such an (expensive) beauty before.

Anyway, I'm also very disappointed by the lack of a way to enable VT extensions on Vaio's bios, unfortunately I didn't run into this issue before adding to the cart an SZ4-MN/B, I was blindly looking at the proc specs but, my bad, NOT INDEED at the available bios options!!

It seems strange to me nobody ever complained about this, I often use this lightweight notebook during my vmware test scenarios (2GB ram, you can do a lot of stuff with such an amount of memory) before switching my VMs to production use, and I'm stuck at the error I can't run any 64bit guest OS without prior enabling VT.

So no way to run anything but 32 bit guest OS on a Core2 Duo that fully supports VT!

Does anyone have good news about the meaning of "currently not supported" and possibly a deadline if we could ever expect to have this option added into bios? We paid for a very useful feature that is... "currently" disabled.

Thanks
B.

[Blencogo]

Hi brunof and welcome to Club Vaio.

This issue comes up from time to time - but in all honesty very rarely.

We did approach Sony to ask why VT is disabled and did not get a satisfactory response except that it is a decision made in Japan and a feature of all Sony Vaios that VT is disabled and they are advertised for sale as such.

I don't think any change is in the pipeline on this.

[brunof]

Hi Blencogo,
and thanks for answering.

I apologise if this one was already discussed in the past, I did a couple of searches with "VT", "VT extensions" and similar on the forum but no result ever popped out.

It's a pity they disabled this option, and also that this issue comes up only from time to time.. Maybe because Vaios are intended for a management-class audience and not directly for IT people? The fact is, on the few big stores I visited while searching for the best offer, all of them obviously wrote in bold font about having a VT capable processor, but no one ever told the feature was disabled by the manufacturer, but hey, shop disclaimers are written in bold font too, no liability in case of inaccuracies or omissions, so it's a no money back.

But of course, like you said, they clearly advertise on their site about this limitation..

Is it worth starting a poll or do some hammering to request from Japan a limited/unsupported/beta bios with the VT flag enabled?

Otherwise I'll have to painfully drop my Vaio in a short while for a more wise one, VT is a must have feature nowadays IMHO, and unfortunately a must have for my job.