cpu processing capabilities

[Lloyd Kvam]

http://ark.intel.com/Product.aspx?id=42014
claims that the P7550 supports virtualization which I expect to show up
as vmx in the cpuflags.

I bought a new HP laptop which featured a P7550 processor and expected
to be able to use KVM.  Unfortunately, the vmx flag is not present, and
HP does not believe they disabled vmx capabilities.

http://forum.notebookreview.com/showpost.php?s=c0762a76f7b00eada10c7b8f986d9822&p=5272854&postcount=6
This post convinced me that the Intel page is wrong.

Can anyone suggest a good course of action?  Have any of you encountered
this problem?  I can grumble to Newegg amd HP, but Intel appears to be
the party at fault.

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Lloyd Kvam
Venix Corp
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