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[Thomas Martitz <thomas.martitz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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.