[OT?] a viable laptop for exploring virtualization on f11?

James Hubbard jameshubbard at gmail.com
Mon Apr 6 13:07:10 UTC 2009


On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 8:56 AM, Adam Huffman <adam.huffman at gmail.com> wrote:
> Yes, my Vaio has a suitable processor but it's disabled in the BIOS and when
> I complained to Sony they weren't too interested.
>
> Some brave people have tried to hack the BIOS to re-enable it.

That's good to know.  It's one more reason not to buy the Sony.  HP
was the only other company that I knew that had not enabled it in the
bios for some of their laptops.  They released a bios that enabled it
after some pressure from the community.

http://forums13.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/bizsupport/questionanswer.do?admit=109447627+1239023119851+28353475&threadId=1051601

Most of the Dell laptops that I've seen have a setting in the bios
that will allow it to be enabled as long as the processor supports it.
 I have run windows guests on my M70 using kvm+qemu without any
problems.




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