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Just talked to the german hotline, the guy didn't even know, that Intel CPUs does have VT (but he knew about AMD, which isn't used by IBM/Lenovo). So I got a new record in their support-list and they will call me back. --10:35, 14 December 2006 (CET)
 
Just talked to the german hotline, the guy didn't even know, that Intel CPUs does have VT (but he knew about AMD, which isn't used by IBM/Lenovo). So I got a new record in their support-list and they will call me back. --10:35, 14 December 2006 (CET)
 
:Got a callback from Lenovo, they said I might have a modified Windows (because the laptop was bougth through the students-support-stuff) and as I said Linux, I got an "unsupported". It looks for me like selling a Ferrari, but not telling where the gear-shift is... Found an interesting link on the net: http://forum.thinkpads.com/viewtopic.php?t=34454 - seems someone at Lenovo knows that VT is disabled... --[[User:Zhenech|Zhenech]] 13:12, 14 December 2006 (CET)
 
:Got a callback from Lenovo, they said I might have a modified Windows (because the laptop was bougth through the students-support-stuff) and as I said Linux, I got an "unsupported". It looks for me like selling a Ferrari, but not telling where the gear-shift is... Found an interesting link on the net: http://forum.thinkpads.com/viewtopic.php?t=34454 - seems someone at Lenovo knows that VT is disabled... --[[User:Zhenech|Zhenech]] 13:12, 14 December 2006 (CET)
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Needless to say, it has nothing to do with the OS. It's a bit in a CPU register that's set by the BIOS before the OS even loads. --[[User:Thinker|Thinker]] 14:59, 15 December 2006 (CET)

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IBM/Lenovo support does not know about VT

Just talked to the german hotline, the guy didn't even know, that Intel CPUs does have VT (but he knew about AMD, which isn't used by IBM/Lenovo). So I got a new record in their support-list and they will call me back. --10:35, 14 December 2006 (CET)

Got a callback from Lenovo, they said I might have a modified Windows (because the laptop was bougth through the students-support-stuff) and as I said Linux, I got an "unsupported". It looks for me like selling a Ferrari, but not telling where the gear-shift is... Found an interesting link on the net: http://forum.thinkpads.com/viewtopic.php?t=34454 - seems someone at Lenovo knows that VT is disabled... --Zhenech 13:12, 14 December 2006 (CET)

Needless to say, it has nothing to do with the OS. It's a bit in a CPU register that's set by the BIOS before the OS even loads. --Thinker 14:59, 15 December 2006 (CET)