Am 22.12.2009 16:27, schrieb el_lunatico:
This definetely is a pain in the a... - i can't even see the point in
selfcastrating a product in a way a couple of manufacturers are doing it.
Why do you voluntarily remove a feature of your product that the
hardware is naturally capable of and risk to annoy your customers in
doing so?
I really do not get it - and i thought that the badly coded Bios in
matters of ACPI compliance leading to not working suspend on linux
platforms was bad enough.
Whatever "FTC" and "feds" might be, i will contact the customer
support and hope they will fix this if not done so in 1.17 already.
Joseph Annino schrieb:
I used the hack that involved booting into an EFI tool on a USB key,
which requires older bios versions to work. It was a pain to do,
and it seems the method to patch newer bioses is even worse, so I
don't want to touch my bios unless Acer finally smartens up and
enables VT or provides an option for it in the CMOS settings.
This VT issue on a lot of laptops is really ridiculous. Maybe a
bunch of us should write letters to the FTC and let the feds handle it.
el_lunatico wrote:
Hey Joseph,
i've got a 3810t too and was shocked to see that i couldn't start a
VM i created on a different machine because of the lacking or better
disabled (grrrrrr...Acer) VT-x feature.
Another unhappy customer...
Did you use the method described by Alexander or the one to dump,
set VT to enabled and reflash bios described here
<http://marcansoft.com/blog/2009/06/enabling-intel-vt-on-the-aspire-8930g/>?
BTW, is it still necessary to do it that way or is this feature
enabled in the latest 1.17 bios upgrade as this is necessary for
future VM- WinXP emulation in Windows 7? Could somebody please
comment on this?
Cheers,
Nix
I can only say "works for me", so I doubt they removed it intentionally.
TBH I haven't tried a VM in linux yet though.
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