Sony L Series Hardware virtualization

[looski]

Hi all

I just recieved my L Series all in one PC. Awsome bit of kit, however i have a need to run a few apps in XP mode. This is usually quite easy to achieve by installing Virtual PC, however it requires Hardware Virtualisation enabled in the bios - which is disabled by default. Sadly it seems all the Vaio range have a limited menu so you cant enable it. A little googling on the subject, it seems some clever people have found away around it .. by exporting the bios to a text file, changing a setting the re-importing the text file. Unfortunately this isnt possible on the L series for two reasons a) it uses a later version bios and noone seems to know which setting to change b) the import/export tool doesnt work on it.

This leaves me a little stuck... does anyone have away around it or an alternative method of running apps in xp mode?

regards
looski

[Blencogo]

Hi looski,

Exactly which Vaio model do you own?

There is a VT BIOS update R0201T5 for the VPC-L11 series Vaios which adds VT to the BIOS options. However, it can only work if your processor is VT compatible - check here:

http://www.intel.com/support/processors/tools/piu/sb/CS-014921.htm