Comments on: Sony Confirms No Hardware Virtualization on Vaio Computers Past, Present or Future

By: RichF

RichF — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 06:56:07 +0000

We have five Sony Vaio notebooks at home and two of them are expensive SZ eries models. These are the last Sony Vaio notebooks we will buy. I feel like I have been bait and switched. I install network systems and up until now I have reccommended several notebook brands as clients. I have installed a lot of Vaios in the past. I have now stopped reccomending Sony Vaio notebooks. Last week I installed a nice SMB network and it is equipped with HP notebooks that run virtualization beautifully. To hell with Sony. If they don’t care about customers, why be Sony customers.

By: RichF

RichF — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 04:39:22 +0000

I am in i anyone can get a class action suit is possible. I bought two VGN-SZ-750N/C computers because the processor was powerful enough to do this and these babies even support TPM. So why not virtualization like some of the cheaper models have? This makes me crazy. I have written Sony and I think the only way they will getoff their asses is if everyone with this stupid issue writes them too. I have read a few posts showing how to take a big chance and hack the BIOS, but I am afraid to wreck two computers just because Sony is dumb and lazy. Write them, complain and do it over and over again.

By: Irvin

Irvin — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 15:46:32 +0000

This is the last time a buy a damn SONY VAIO….Dont waste your money making rich those assholes.

By: Torsten

Torsten — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 11:37:31 +0000

@ David: you wrote:
For comparison, we have a much, much older Dell PowerEdge 1850 server and guess what? Yup. Dell had Windows Server 2008 R2 drivers for it (which is the same as Windows 7 drivers).

Can you please send a link to the Win7 Dell drivers or discribe which one i have to use. I have a PERC 4/SC in my Poweredge 1850 and would like to install Win Server 2008 R2 for some Tests.

By: Michael

Michael — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 15:50:57 +0000

What model is it?

By: Nardon

Nardon — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 08:29:04 +0000

Hey,

I am counting in.

I bought this PC for my school and we work a lot with Virtual environments like VWware and Virtual PC.

Now with the laptop itself is nothing wrong and when not using any virtual applications it performs wonderfull but I did check the speccs before I bought it and I was sure it supported HV!

I felt a bit screwed when I saw it was disabled. :/

By: Michael

Michael — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 01:24:27 +0000

Explain, what exactly is wrong?

By: Christian

Christian — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 03:42:18 +0000

I have Vaio VGN-Z820G windows 7 pro centrino duo core 2. I purchased this model because it would allow VT mode for all my old XP software. I downloded the Windows XP VP software without a hitch. Everything has worked just fine until this week. Does any body know if Sony changed something with their updates?

By: Michael

Michael — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 10:36:17 +0000

Double check the model number, the one you gave is incorrect.

By: CW

CW — Fri, 25 Dec 2009 00:01:49 +0000

Hi,
I’m really glad I stumbles upon this site. I might sound like fresh to the tech side, but pls bear with me.
I’ve had almost made up my mind to get myself a CW16FA. But I require to use a lot if Vms and I’m not sure it’s enabled on it. The processor does support VT. But it’s loaded with Home Premium. I’m not that bend on using XP mode as such, I just want Vmware to run properly.
Does the bios need to be VT enabled to get VMWare to run on CW? any help would be greatly appreciated. I donot want to regret after putting in my cash. Else I might consider an SR. Thanks.