What exactially is virtualisation
See here: http://www.intel.com/technology/computing/vptech/
You may have heard of one popular product called VMware.
indeed. And "Containers" in Solaris, etc, all the way back to IBM VM/370. So whats Intel bringing to the table other than smoke and mirrors? Ok, I see an additional execution mode "VMX" defined here ftp://download.intel.com/technology/computing/vptech/C97063-002.pdf but mostly I see smoke and mirrors. I wonder if VMware is going to adopt this stuff?
Intel is mostly talking about Itanium 2 and Xeon/64 stuff, IE, this is mostly for servers, so IT departments can maximize utilization of consolidated servers, and so ISP's can offer "dedicated" hosting clients cheaper virtual machines rather than actually needing a 1U per customer. I really don't see much use for this on the desktop platform, except perhaps for software developers who want to run a debug environment hosted on the same computer as they develop on.
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