No Windows 7 XP Mode For Sony Vaio Z Owners

Posted by timothy on Tuesday August 11, 2009 @01:48AM from the for-your-own-good dept.

Voyager529 writes "While virtually every Core 2 Duo processor supports the hardware virtualization technology that powers the Windows 7 XP Mode, The Register UK reports that the Core 2 Duo processors in the Sony Vaio Z series laptops had the virtualization features intentionally crippled in the BIOS. Senior manager for product marketing Xavier Lauwaert stated that the QA engineers did this to make the systems more resilient against malicious code. He also stated that while they are considering enabling VT in some laptop models due to the backlash, the Z series are not among those being retrofitted."

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Re:flash by Anonymous Coward · 2009-08-11 02:23 · Score: 0, Redundant

There is such a possibility, at least for some models! I own an SZ6 and I successfully flashed a slightly modified BIOS to enable VT - and it works just fine. You can also enable AHCI for the SATA controller, just ask Google for something like "SZ6 VT BIOS AHCI".