Intel VT not working on all Mac Minis?

Posted on April 9, 2006 by Josh Bancroft

TinyScreenfuls pal jnichols959 left a comment with some info about Intel “VT” Virtualization Technology apparently not working on some Intel Mac Minis:

http://appleintelfaq.com/#10.1

http://forum.parallels.com/post718-22.html

From reading those posts, it’s not clear whether it’s certain serial number series of Mac Minis that leave VT disabled, or if it has to do with the firmware revision. I’ll check mine when I get to work tomorrow, but I suspect that it is working, because of the performance I’m getting in Parallels Workstation.

If you’ve got an Intel Mac Mini, and want to help figure out this mystery, check out those two links for how to check your Mini, and report your results!

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  • http://arstechnica.com/journals/apple.ars/2006/4/10/3535 Infinite Loop

    opened very recently in Texas sports the new design and apparently smaller stores that currently feature theaters will have those phased out in favor of “Studio” bars. JoshB at TinyScreenfuls, a blogger at Intel and Arsian, is following reports ofIntel virtualisation tech. not being enabled on all Intel Mac minis: “From reading those posts, it’s not clear whether it’s certain serial number series of Mac Minis that leave VT disabled, or if it has to do with the firmware revision.”

  • tyler

    Parallels team reports a work-around:

    http://forum.parallels.com/thread1508.html

    put your mini to sleep first and then wake it back up.

    Didn’t work until I did a restart and then tried it again.