Ubuntu On Sony Vaio FW Series

As I saw on Bernhard Froemel‘s blog, Sony plans to make bios updates with enabled VT. Sony decides to enable it after people complain about non working XP Mode in Windows 7.

I see people confirming it in comments, but I still can not find any update for my model on sony-europe.com

At this time thanks going to Peter Crees for pointing me to HOWTO Enable Intel VT on Sony VAIO by Igor Levicki (big thanks to him!), all you need is to do a bootable usb flash drive with DOS, put there VTPATCH files from downloads section of that howto. Then reboot into DOS from usb and run PATCH.BAT. Pretty easy

Here is a little howto make you flash drive bootable. Yea, it’s for windows, I did it in virtualbox, because I have windows installed there to test sites with IE. You can find another linux only solution, and I’ll put it here.

Cheers!