Windows 7’s XP Mode will not work on all Sony laptops that have hardware virtualization capability, despite being equipped with fully capable Intel Core 2 Duos. According to Gizmodo, this move was made after Sony faced much negative criticism from its original decision to disable virtualization across all its current Vaio model laptops.

Xavier Lauwaert, Senior Manager Product Marketing at Sony, stated two primary reasons for disabling VT in a comment over at the Windows Team Blog:

Contrary to perceived opinion, we have received very little if any requests to enable VT technology up until very recently.
In addition, our engineers and QA people were very concerned that enabling VT would expose our systems to malicious code that could go very deep in the Operating System structure of the PC and completely disable the latter.

Another user called Levicki in the same article claims that he has been able to enable VT-technology on Sony VAIO laptops despite the lock placed by Sony. His website is located here.
Gizmodo also spotted “online guides that claim to run through re-enabling hardware virtualization on Vaio laptops that use either a Phoenix BIOS, or the Insyde H2O UEFI framework (like the Vaio Z).”

Disclaimer: I have not tested any patches on the website. Windows7Center is not responsible for any harm that may be caused by the patch.

Windows XP Mode was designed to ease the transition from XP to Windows 7 by allowing support for legacy apps seamlessly on the same desktop.<

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