Intel Virtualization Technology

Intel® Virtualization Technology is part of a collection of premier Intel designed and manufactured silicon technologies that deliver new and improved computing benefits for home and business users, and IT managers. Others in the market today include Intel® Hyper-Threading Technology and Intel® Extended Memory 64 Technology, with plans for Intel® Active Management Technology and LaGrande Technology that focus on management and greater security underway.

Virtualization enhanced by Intel Virtualization Technology will allow a platform to run multiple operating systems and applications in independent partitions. With virtualization, one computer system can function as multiple “virtual” systems. With processor and I/O enhancements to Intel’s various platforms, Intel Virtualization Technology can improve the performance and robustness of today’s software-only virtual machine solutions.

Intel Virtualization Technology will provide a foundation for widely-deployed virtualization solutions

# Intel Virtualization Technology-based Virtualization under development by leading providers of virtualization infrastructure

# Intel Virtualization Technology forms the foundation of a roadmap of Intel technologies focused on improved virtualization and safer computing

Provides headroom for more robust hardware-assisted virtualization solutions:

# When combined with the right software Intel Virtualization Technology can improve the reliability and supportability of virtualization solutions, enabling improved consolidation and fail-over for servers

# For client platforms, Intel Virtualization Technology helps optimized software provide a foundation for highly available and more secure client virtualization partitions

#Intel platforms supporting Intel Virtualization Technology started shipping in 2005 for desktop and 2006 for mobile platforms and Intel® Xeon® processor-based servers and workstations.

# Later in 2006, Intel® Itanium® processor-based servers supporting Intel Virtualization Technology will start shipping