asus G75VW and its specifications

[yorn]

hello,
i ahve seen the following notebook.
http://rog.asus.com/notebook/17-inch/g75vw/

it also ships with the Intel® Core™ i7 3720QM Processor, this cpu supports the VT-d technology, but its chipset:
http://ark.intel.com/products/64339/Intel-BD82HM77-PCH

is not supporting it, so i would like to know if the vt-d of the cpu will be of some usefulness. that is, could i use it? as it could be sued?

i thank you in advance for the answers

[yorn]

so nobody is able to answer this?

[Griwes]

When did less than 36 hours become the longest possible time to wait for answer?

[Brendan]

Hi,

it also ships with the Intel® Core™ i7 3720QM Processor, this cpu supports the VT-d technology, but its chipset:
http://ark.intel.com/products/64339/Intel-BD82HM77-PCH

That page says:

Intel® Virtualization Technology requires a computer system with a processor, chipset, BIOS, virtual machine monitor (VMM) and for some uses, certain platform software, enabled for it.

If the CPU supports it and you install a virtual machine monitor but the chipset and the BIOS don't support it; then you'd only have half of the things required and it won't work.


Cheers,

Brendan

[yorn]

hi, thank you all for the answers,
but if the chipset and the cpu support the vtx (that is they manage all the data related to this technology), why would it would be also necessary the BIOS to support it and even the computer to have a virtual machine monitor to support also the vtx, and why there would be also necessary also a certain platform software?

how do i find out if the bios of that notebook supports the vtx? it is not listes in the chipset datasheet that is supports the vtx, but i suppose that is supports. and also how to find out if it has a VMM. i have searched the google for that and also in the http://rog.asus.com/notebook/17-inch/g75vw/ , downloads separator -> bios and manual sections checked and nothing usefull found

[cb88]

Want to know if the BIOS supports VT-x/VT-d ... ask a BIOS modder! At least then you would have someone that is knowlegeable about the machine and also could add support if the hardware supports it and the default BIOS lacks it (rather common case acutally).

I've been recently considering getting a clevo w110er (i7 quad core and nvidia 650m in a netbook size) and there is a very good modded BIOS for it... but it lacks chipset support as well for virtualization. You might consider some of the larger clevo models I imagine they have support and modder interest even though they might not look as snazzy as that asus.