Bad SONY! – BLOCKS Virtual XP mode in Windows 7
It may shock you but, its true! The Sony Vaio laptops are not designed to run Window’s 7′s much boasted Windows XP virtual mode. Also the laptops are shipping with BIOS with which Virtualization cannot be done. Sony hasn’t made any clarification regarding whether, they will enable this feature in coming future or not.
According to Sony Insider, the company commented on this by saying that “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”, a official of the company.
Many misconceptions and confusion are crawling within the people that Sony’s advertising is not at all clear about the whether the Vaio machines are unable to work with a core feature of the Core 2 Duo chips they ship with. As a result of which, many people have now asked for a refund.
I am personally looking forward to do this feature as it would let me to run some of the apps that run only in Windows XP. If SONY does not come with a solution, then they are bound to loose certain number of consumers (including me)
[via sonyinsider]
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you can install xp by virtual box, thats not cool that much but it works, just put it in google. and read the toturial or instruction, i read thousands comment to fix this problem but i couldnt, eventually , i installed with this program.good luck
Have you tried VMLite Xp Mode? It’s like the lighter version of XP Mode.
http://goo.gl/9j4q
You can download it here:
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=HRR95M0R
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=20SNQ8EB
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=Q08STO7V
May Chan, hardware virtualization is now supported in Windows 7