Comments on: Virtualization extensions with a Vaio TZ11MN/N

By: hario

hario — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 23:17:35 +0000

Thanks a lot for the info. It is great to know that this is (still) working for the people out there and that is useful for doing things

By: l8sk8r

l8sk8r — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 22:48:09 +0000

If you have this firmware revsion, you WILL be able to run XP mode in Windows 7!!
I can confirm this as I write!!!!

I own a VGN-TZ16 which is the asian variant of the VGN-TZ11 but had no problems.

There’s a faster way to create a bootdisk than recommended in this guide.

Here’s what you will need, i’ve provide current links where appropriate:

1 x USB flash drive (8MB or greater)

1 x Program to mount isos, such as PowerIso or Daemon Tools

1 x HP USB Disk Storage Format Tool
(http://files.extremeoverclocking.com/file.php?f=197)

1 x Win98 Boot disk iso
(http://www.allbootdisks.com/downloads/ISO/AllBootDisks_ISO_Image_Downloads25/Win98_bootdisk.iso)

1 x Tiny Editor
(http://www.os2site.com/sw/apps/editors/tinyed.zip) and (http://www.os2site.com/sw/apps/editors/tinyed.txt)

1 x Syscmos file
(ftp://ftp.mathematik.uni-marburg.de/pub/mirror/supermicro/utility/symcmos.exe)

Instructions
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1. Install HP format tool – SP27608.exe
2. Mount Win98_bootdisk.iso to a virtual drive
3. Insert your USB flash drive and load HP format tool.
4. Select USB flash drive and select quick format, create a DOS startup disk and just locate the mounted iso
5. When the process has completed. just go into your USB flash drive in explorer. You will see there is no files. This is correct as the DOS files are hidden and not visble. Copy over syscmos and all the files extracted from Tinyed.zip and readme in the root of the drive. (You can make folders and place lots of other dos files if necessary).
6. Restart your machine and you should now be in DOS mode!

Now follow the rest of the guide/article in relation to syscmos.

I hope many people have success with this. We paid enough for these laptops!

Thanks for making the guide in first place man!

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By: Mehdi

Mehdi — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 13:34:41 +0000

“Cannot find BCPNV”

What is BCPNV??? What can I do???
Please Help me.
I really need Hardware Virtualization

By: hario

hario — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 15:58:18 +0000

@pawel: If you follow the link which points to the NotebookReview forums, there are some posts that contain lists of addresses tagged with Sony model and BIOS version numbers. I tried with the address used for other model which also has the same version of the Phoenix BIOS and it worked.

By: pawel

pawel — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 20:21:04 +0000

attempting to solve the same problem on VGN-FW21Z
my question would be how you came to identify 0363 as a address for VT enabling

cheers,

By: hario

hario — Fri, 02 May 2008 13:40:50 +0000

At least it worked… and KVM runs smoother than Qemu with its kernel module, so I think it worths trying to enable the extensions

By: ajdiaz

ajdiaz — Fri, 02 May 2008 12:03:38 +0000

Interesting post, and interesting way to enable virtualization extensions in Vaio BIOS, it’s really a dirty, but funny hack!