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Intel has enabled virtualization technology (VT) in the current Paxville Xeons, and it be included in the upcoming Dempsey Xeons (which we hope to be looking at in more depth right here), but apparently the single CPU, single core crowd is going to get their shot at Vanderpool Technology sooner rather than later.

Intel is set to launch Monday new desktop processors that can subdivide tasks in a hardware feature called Virtualization Technology, or VT. While VT is currently found in some of Intel's Xeon processors for servers, this is the first time that the chipmaking giant has extended the technology to the desktop via its Pentium line.

Now if only someone could come up with a good way to test virtualization prowess, I know I'd be happy.

Frans SMP Newbie Posts: 47 Joined: 2002-12-02

#38347 Posted on: 11/15/2005 02:41 PM It would be nice to run a mailserver under winxp, a audioprogram (sequencer) under winxp64 and to watch a dvd under mediacenter. This would mean three different installs of operating systems and a multitude of apps you can use. A different install with Unix stuff would be a nice way to go. Think of OSX86 (cracked version (look for Deadmoo) and an install of Sun's new operating system. A third set of operatingsystems would be severall instances of Linux. This would be a developers system. So you could have the: businesssystem the alternative businesssystem and the developerssystem. Regards, Muziekschuur

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#38348 Posted on: 11/16/2005 01:28 AM This is good news. However this type of technology has been around for years. people are finally cluing in in what IBM has been doing.

terminalrecluse is home now Posts: 3802 Joined: 2004-08-07

#38349 Posted on: 11/16/2005 02:59 AM It hasn't not been availible to the every day consumer though until now. 121 total Ghz, 304GB in total memory... Arch Linux - stable : 3930k @ 4.4Ghz, 64GB DDR3, 120GB Samsung 840, HX850 DAS - Norco 4020 - 20x Seagate 3TB, 1KW PSU FBSD 10 ZFS server - SM Chassis, SM X8DTE, 2x L5520 Xeons, 48GB Reg DDR3 ULP, IBM 5015 w/ 512MB DDR2 cache, RAID-50 - 42TB storage Dell C6100 - 4 nodes, 2 1.1KW psu's, 2x L5520s, 6x e5530s, 192GB reg DDR3 (48GB each), F@H, etc

tfp Embedded C Lackey Posts: 340 Joined: 2002-09-22

#38350 Posted on: 11/16/2005 03:28 AM And yet the every day consumer doesn't need it... Writing the code that breaks your hardware...

terminalrecluse is home now Posts: 3802 Joined: 2004-08-07

#38351 Posted on: 11/16/2005 05:15 AM I do. I want to run windows and then linux in a window nativly. 121 total Ghz, 304GB in total memory... Arch Linux - stable : 3930k @ 4.4Ghz, 64GB DDR3, 120GB Samsung 840, HX850 DAS - Norco 4020 - 20x Seagate 3TB, 1KW PSU FBSD 10 ZFS server - SM Chassis, SM X8DTE, 2x L5520 Xeons, 48GB Reg DDR3 ULP, IBM 5015 w/ 512MB DDR2 cache, RAID-50 - 42TB storage Dell C6100 - 4 nodes, 2 1.1KW psu's, 2x L5520s, 6x e5530s, 192GB reg DDR3 (48GB each), F@H, etc

tfp Embedded C Lackey Posts: 340 Joined: 2002-09-22

#38352 Posted on: 11/16/2005 05:22 AM Originally posted by terminalrecluse: I do. I want to run windows and then linux in a window nativly. You and maybe few hundred other people. I would still like to know how "joe public" is going to use this. Any one have any ideas? Writing the code that breaks your hardware...

terminalrecluse is home now Posts: 3802 Joined: 2004-08-07

#38353 Posted on: 11/16/2005 05:41 AM I think it will be just another cool new feature that some sales rep will turn into a must have and all of a sudden millions of sheeple buying Intel (including myself possibly) will have it. 121 total Ghz, 304GB in total memory... Arch Linux - stable : 3930k @ 4.4Ghz, 64GB DDR3, 120GB Samsung 840, HX850 DAS - Norco 4020 - 20x Seagate 3TB, 1KW PSU FBSD 10 ZFS server - SM Chassis, SM X8DTE, 2x L5520 Xeons, 48GB Reg DDR3 ULP, IBM 5015 w/ 512MB DDR2 cache, RAID-50 - 42TB storage Dell C6100 - 4 nodes, 2 1.1KW psu's, 2x L5520s, 6x e5530s, 192GB reg DDR3 (48GB each), F@H, etc

i_wolf labhair dom as gaelige Posts: 2097 Joined: 2002-11-19

#38356 Posted on: 11/16/2005 04:40 PM Well the only non tech savvy end users that immediately that would spring to mind to benefit from this could be new Apple Mac users in January/Feb when the new Intel Macs are expected to be announced. These users could in theory run OS X and Windows at the same time on the same platform. Apart from that... I think it will be a boon for developers today but as already mentioned before, potentially not very useful for the 99% of non tech savvy users out there today. Hung like a donkey. Go like a horse!

cjcox Titus 3:5 Posts: 1426 Joined: 2002-09-19

#38357 Posted on: 11/16/2005 06:03 PM Xen HP-xw6600/2x2.83Ghz-E5440/4G/10K-160G-SATA/300G-SATA/7600GT/BluRayRW/openSUSE-11.1 HP-2530p/2.13GhzCore2/4G/1x160G/Intel4500MHD/DVD-RW/openSUSE-11.1 Custom/2xX5550/12G/2x300G-10K-Raptor/NVS295/DVDRW/ESX-4.0 Custom/2x6128HE/32G/4x2TB/onboard/Blueray/SLES11SP1-KVM

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