How unlucky I am with virtualization or check everything!

In Microsoft Windows 7, a wonderful and beautiful innovation has appeared - a built-in virtual machine with Windows XP, which is called Windows XP Mode. When I found out about this, my joy knew no bounds! After all, at work I have to actively use virtual machines, and the Virtual PC 2007 used was “not very convenient.” And here - the decision "out of the box" is just happiness!

Naturally, Windows Vista was immediately demolished, Windows 7 was installed in its place, Windows XP Mode files were loaded and the built-in virtual machine was launched.

“I can't start this junk,” the virtual machine told me.
- What junk? - I was taken aback. The computer was just over a year old. Intel Core 2 Duo E7200, 4 Gb of memory ...
“Your computer is only suitable for a dump,” the virtual machine continued.
- Aha, to the dump ... It has been done so much, it is done now and it will be done, that it’s too early for the dump, - I did not give up.
- Yes, look, on any other computer I earn without problems, just not on this, - the virtual machine was adamant.
“We’ll check it now,” I said.
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And I went to check other working machines with the help of the special utility HAV Detection Tool from Microsoft, which checks whether the virtual machine will work on the computer or not. The first was tested new machine with four cores and eight gigabytes of memory.

“Well, and they said that there is no normal computer,” happily starting, said the virtual machine.

Then I checked the computer, which was about three years old.
“Yes, and here I can work,” the virtual machine continued.

Finally, I checked a computer that is four or four years old.
“I won't have any problems with working on this wonderful system!” The virtual machine continued to mock me.

That is, the virtual machine worked on all computers (including vintage ones), but did not work on my relatively modern (which is the whole year). Of course, you can use Virtual PC 2007 instead of Windows XP Mode, and everything will work ... But I just wanted Windows XP Mode.

Studies have shown that on my beautiful computer the processor does not support virtualization technology (Intel Virtualization Technology). And Windows XP Mode just wants this technology. The guys from Microsoft promise to release a patch that is allowed to use Windows XP Mode on processors without this thing, but so far I have remained without new virtual machines.

Why is this all on the Intel blog? Well, I have a processor from Intel :-). So if you need virtual machines from Windows XP Mode and you plan to buy an Intel processor for this, check here if the correct model supports Intel Virtualization Technology. Well and still a resource on a subject: Intel vPro Expert Center .