Is Intel's VT enabled in A8JS (or other ASUS notebook) BIOS?

I'd like to know if the BIOS for the (US) A8JS enables Intel's Virtualization Technology (VT) or includes an option to turn it on.

I've seen that some other notebook vendors do not allow VT to be enabled by turning it off in BIOS without an option to turn it on (possibly for high temperature concerns).

Can other ASUS notebook owner's respond as well?

I'm interested in running Windows XP as a Xen client while running Linux on the A8JS notebook (or alternatively, I'll run Windows XP as a VMWare client while running Linux on the A8JS notebook). I've also considered the same using QEMU but I need USB support and QEMU has just started to include USB support.

Thanks.

 

AS far as i know, the only chips to look out for are the ones with a E on the end, ie, T2300E - NO VT support.

doubt tempretures would come into play....

insane

 

Are you saying look out for the 'E' chips in general or for ASUS notebooks in particular? I do know that some vendors are disabling VT in BIOS (or not releasing a BIOS that supports VT) in Intel chips that can do VT.

Thanks.

 

If you're interested in hardware virtualisation, I'd go against the crowd and recommend a notebook using the AMD Turion X2 CPU. While the Core Duo has the performance edge in standard applications, the AMD's still readily beat them in VT, primarily due to the CPU's onboard memory controller which obviates the need to emulate on northbridge memory controller.

 

Anybody? I too am looking for a laptop to run vmware or xen and would like to have the option in the bios to turn on intel vt.
thank you,
Scott

 

Almost..

Core 2 Duo
T7600 - Yes
T7400 - Yes
T7200 - Yes
T5600 - Yes
T5500 - No
T5200 - No

Core Duo
T2700 - Yes
T2600 - Yes
T2500 - Yes
T2400 - Yes
T2300 - Yes
T2300E - No
T2250 - No
T2050 - No
L2500 - Yes
L2400 - Yes
L2300 - Yes
U2400 - Yes
U2500 - Yes

Core Solo
No Models Support Intel Virtualization Technology

Source

http://www.intel.com/products/processor_number/proc_info_table.pdf

As far as the latest A8Js, there is no separate option for enabling/disabling Intel VT technology. I don't know if that means it is enabled by default or disabled. Maybe in a future BIOS update.

 

thank you from what i have found out..if there is no option in the bios you are out of luck...it is disabled.

 

VT support should generally be enabled in the BIOS by default if the chip you have supports it. Maybe you could try to download a trial of some virtualization software to see if it'll work?

I should also specifically point out that the T5500 processor that ASUS is equipping most of their new models with doesn't have VT according to Intel. It's not apparent from the name and most people probably won't notice it, but people should be warned beforehand.

 

unfortunately you are wrong...unless the bios has an option to turn virtualization on, you are out of luck. there are many many threads about this. there are some very pissed off people that have a cpu that supports vt but the it's not enabled in the bios. from what i have read amd does not allow this to happen.

Scott

 

Ahh cheers


..Well another reason to go AMD X2... trust me its no slouch