Doubtful

It's all down to the OEMs; Dell Vostros for instance, ship with CPUs that are VT capable but their BIOS lacks the lines of code required to switch it on!!!! The only reasons I can think they've done it are the cost of wiriting the BIOS update (unlikely), ineptitude (probable) or to increase their product range (bingo!).

"If you need a seriously powerful machine buy this Vostro, but if you want VT as well well let me show you this instead......"

"But it's £500 more!"

"Yeah, suck it n00b!"

Personally I think MS were beyond utterly moronic to use a hypervisor that required VT for Win7 as the whole point of the feature was to allow people to migrate WITHOUT shelling out on expensive new hardware!

Not all OEMs fault.

A lot of machines use the intel chipsets are incapable of running Intel-VT because INTEL do not allow it. Out of a possible 25 Core 2 chipsets only 7 support virtualization.

I just went through an ordering process where Intel-VT was a requirement. The number of suppliers who offered me machine whose processor was fine but the chipset was not was a joke.

Now I want to hit someone from microsoft for making this change. I welcome it, I just wished I had known about it 2 weeks ago!

(ps the fail is for Intel)

Nope

'Personally I think MS were beyond utterly moronic to use a hypervisor that required VT for Win7 as the whole point of the feature was to allow people to migrate WITHOUT shelling out on expensive new hardware!'

Nope. The point was to run windows XP only applications, on Windows 7. Nothing to do with performance.

Fail Bis

Who talks about performance? Only you, Steve.

The point was to be able to upgrade *now* from XP to Win7, without worrying (supposedly) about legacy apps. And then MS realised *now* would not happen if people had to buy new kit (doh!), so they changed their stance.

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Fail. That is all.

Or

just do the mydigitallife BIOS hack and enjoy the best of both worlds for nowt.

Amen....