I think T5500 has no virtualization support. So your Sony Vaio bios simply does not has the option: http://www.intel.com/products/processor_number/chart/core2duo.htm
Steven James Cornell wrote: > Intel Core Duo T2600 and higher have virtualization support. > > James > > On Dec 7, 2007, at 5:48 AM, Douglas Atique wrote: > > >> Hi, >> >> I would like to confirm which processors support the HVM full >> virtualization mode. >> >> I own a Sony VGN-N38ZW which is equipped with an Intel Core 2 Duo >> T5500 processor and its BIOS doesn't present any options to enable VT. >> >> Since the machine is pretty new it is still in the warranty period, >> thus I opened a case on Vaio support site to ask about this. >> According to them VT is not supported and no BIOS updates will come >> out. >> >> I don't trust the explanation they gave me, because there was none >> at all. I would like to know whether this is really true. >> >> I have read reports of programs who write NVRAM locations to work >> around the BIOS and enable VT. Is this possible? Or maybe is it >> possible to run some program in Solaris to enable VT? >> >> In case this is really true and I won't be able to use VT on this >> notebook, does anyone recommend any other notebooks for running >> Windows and other stuff on top of OpenSolaris? I have heard that the >> MacBook Pro will do it, but I am afraid SXCE won't run on it. >> >> Any hints appreciated. >> >> Cheers, >> Douglas >> >> >> This message posted from opensolaris.org >> _______________________________________________ >> xen-discuss mailing list >> [email protected] >> > > _______________________________________________ > xen-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > > _______________________________________________ xen-discuss mailing list [email protected]
