Which CPU are we waiting for to get VM hypervisors in hw?

[Chris Linstid]

Some introductory material on VT...

http://www.intel.com/cd/ids/developer/asmo-na/eng/dc/enterprise/ 
technologies/221962.htm

	- Chris
On Jul 30, 2006, at 8:38 PM, Chris Linstid wrote:

> The regular Core Duo does have the first phase of VT  
> (Virtualization Technology), but it's nothing too impressive.  The  
> next phase from Intel of VT will be in their Core 2 Duo chips which  
> have been announced and I believe will be available in August.  I  
> think it's extremely likely we will see the mobile version (Conroe/ 
> Merom, I believe) of the chip in new laptops very shortly after  
> that.  As far as a rundown on the phases of VT, I wish I could be  
> of more help, but I only saw an NDA Intel roadmap about 3-4 months  
> ago and I don't remember much of it.
>
> I have a 2.16GHz MacBook Pro and it does virtualization quite  
> well... as long as you don't mind slow video.  At the moment, the  
> only game in town (at least on OS X) is Parallels Desktop, which  
> does use the VT support in the regular Core Duo, but I don't know  
> specifically what advantages that gives.
>
> On the Linux side of things, VMware is available (and VMware Server  
> is now free!), but from what I've heard, VMware does not currently  
> take any advantage of VT support.  However, that doesn't really  
> seem to hurt it much.  VMware's product is much more polished and  
> stable than Parallels and I'm looking forward to seeing an OS X  
> version of it.
>
> 	- Chris
>
> On Jul 30, 2006, at 8:19 PM, Ted Roche wrote:
>
>> It's time to start shopping for a new development laptop. I'm a  
>> big fan of big iron: the laptop is my primary workstation and I'd  
>> prefer to lug around a 4 kg machine than lack for power. I'm  
>> tempted both by the ThinkPad T60p and the MacBookPro. Both run  
>> Core Duo.  While I know these are capable of running VMs, I'm  
>> hearing that a next generation chip is going to have more  
>> capability in the chips to provide more powerful VMs. The  
>> technical details are beyond me, but my questions are simple  
>> enough: does anyone know what's the timeline on these new chips,  
>> and will their delivery in laptops make all that much perceivable  
>> difference or are the features more aimed at big iron (8-way and  
>> up) machines.
>>
>> Ted Roche
>> Ted Roche & Associates, LLC
>> http://www.tedroche.com
>>
>>
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