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HP Disables VT On Some Intel Laptops
snoukka writes "I just bought a new HP nx9420 laptop in order to use it with Linux, XEN, and windows on XEN. I was very disappointed when I noticed that the processor had this feature but VT is disabled in BIOS by HP and cannot be enabled! Disabled!? It's like buying a car with turbo and finding out after buying it that this turbo 'feature' was disabled." The forum thread goes back to last August and is still live. The latest post from an HP rep indicates that new firmware for the nx9420 should be available later this week in which the ability to switch on VT is enabled. It's not clear whether other HP products, in which VT was also disabled, will also get new firmware.
Seriously, this sound more like a whine than a news story. I guess if the summary was written differently it might sound a little more important but as it stands it comes off as "I bought a new laptop to do x and x and x with it, but waaaahhh! it won't let me."
I wasn't trying to define VT - I was aiming to illustrate a method of learning that the OP had yet to utilise. Next time there's an acronym that s/he doesn't recognise, they'll at least have a quick and convenient way of working it out.
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