Sony Vaio laptops can't run Window's 7's much vaunted
Windows XP virtual mode The Vaio's are shipping with a BIOS which makes
virtualisation impossible. Sony has not said that it will enable the feature in
the future.
According to Sony Insider the company claims that it has received very little if
any requests to enable VT technology. Its engineers and QA people were very concerned that
enabling VT would expose our systems to malicious code that could go very in
the Operating System structure of the PC and completely disable it, he said.
A few people are rumbling on bulletin boards about class
actions and refunds as it is not clear in Sony's advertising that the Vaio
machines are unable to work with a core feature of the Core 2 Duo chips they
ship with.
Apparently the feature can be re-enabled by booting from
a DOS disk and manually modifying the BIOS. This is considered advanced and
technical task which Sony claims could cause security problems.
Vaio can't do it
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