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Originally Posted by deeveloper

Shame on sony, really disabling VT is probably their way to enforce trusted computing (see links below).. i.e. big brother. Thanks for the BIOS patch! I successfully enabled VT on my sz79.

Sony if you are reading this - Open up the BIOS, or my next computer will NOT be a sony.

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http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/can-you-trust.html
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/tcpa-faq.html
http://www.infowars.com

While I agree that it was wrong headed for Sony to disable VT, I don't see ANY connection to the enforcement of trusted computing. The paranoid, black helicopter ramblings in the three links you provided mention virtual machines or VM a total of one, count 'em, one time. And even that mention offers no substantiation that trusted computing would in any way hinder Virtual machines. It makes the claim and never backs it up with any FACTS.

With so much of the IT infrastructure these days relying on virtualization, do you REALLY think that the PC, chip and software manufactures would go out of their way to hinder the use of virtual machines?

Sorry, I just don't believe there is a connection. But let me join you in urging Sony to give us control of VT at the BIOS level. That is a worthy quest, sans the black helicopters.

Gary