Quoting from CRN:
Intel snuggled up to VMware and Microsoft at its developer’s forum but it’s Xen that will benefit most from the company’s latest batch of virtualization technology-enabled (VT) server chips, sources claim.
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“It’s a big deal,” said Simon Crosby, CTO at Xensource, Palo Alto, Calif. “It brings us the ability to virtualize all operating systems on the x86 architecture, and hands us on a plate a hardware implementation of everything VMware has done over the last five years.”
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Xen claims that VT incorporates much of the functionality offered in its rivals’ respective proprietary virtualization servers…
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