VMWare Fusion VT support

When I try to boot Windows XP in VMware I get this error:
"VMWare Fusion has detected that your host system contains a mix of processors with incompatible VT feature sets.
Click Cancel to abort or OK to continue without using VT."
VMWare runs a heck of a lot faster on my MBP than on my 3GHZ 8-core Mac Pro. And that's just wrong!
I suspect that because VT is not enabled its falling back to software virtualization which is a lot slower.
Does anyone know a way to enable this? I tried various workarounds like sleeping the machine and then trying again already without luck
thanks
-hex.

We've had other threads asking about VT, which is appropriate to this forum.
I see you already asked Fusion Community, and didn't get any response that helped.
I only used 64-bit Vista, even in Fusion, sorry.
I had better luck looking up "Intel VT" in Google and Wiki.
http://www.intel.com/technology/virtualization/
http://communities.intel.com/openport/blogs/server/2008/09/22/3d-graphics-in-vir tualization-using-intel-vtd-on-workstations
I recall some Mac Pro owners running Vista natively, and running Guest VMs in Vista which was interesting.

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Memory Test Suite N/A N/A
Graphics Test Suite N/A N/A
HDD Test Suite N/A N/A
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Web Page Rendering 3.58 Pages/s 2.34 Pages/s
File Decrypt 71.73 MB/s 67.05 MB/s
Graphics Memory - 64 Lines 179.92 FPS 111.73 FPS
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File DeComp N/A N/A
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Image DeComp N/A N/A
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