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To: Petz who wrote (149283)	1/27/2005 6:58:50 PM
From: john filo	Respond to of 275872

Petz, Intel has a Vanderpool spec available for download at intel.com. It looks like they've added about 10 new instructions for taking the processor in and out of what they call the VMX mode. 3. A VMWare-like program is probably still needed to control the virtualization. Not 100% sure, but I think this is true. Definitely. The spec has lots of details I don't even begin to understand, but I get the impression that it exists to assist VMWare like apps. 4. Virtualization on-chip will improve the efficiency of sharing an OS I think it also makes it more reliable. I'm pretty sure that VMWare isn't capable of preventing the guest operating system from doing certain things that it shouldn't do. I'm assuming that Vanderpool makes these kinds of restrictions possible. It's still a mystery to me how shared device access works between multiple guest OS's. I find their claim that by 2010, 95 percent of all new Wintel server deployments will be based on virtualised hardware to be wildly optimistic. Maybe virtualisable hardware.

To: Petz who wrote (149283)	1/28/2005 7:02:54 AM
From: kpf	Respond to of 275872

Petz I believe your description of VT is accurate. Now, VT is a smart idea imo. To see what I mean, it would only need a change of viewpoint from technology to perception: Public discussions about replacing proprietary code with open source to save money are in place already. While I don't want to comment the level of education these discussions are currently on (and will remain, from experience), the most likely outcome will be that the world will desire an option which it perceives as a seamless migration path. Rather a question of when than if. Here we are. ;-) So, look at VT as "technology" to capitalize from a possible megatrend to come. Don't get me wrong here, I don't see many people ever use VT. But I see them spending public and corporate money in the way they can always argue they have the "technology" in place to do it whenever it would make any sense. Maybe even more important, VT will do something for Intels brand perception: It will create a subconscious illusion of VT as "white knight" to liberate us from the evil MS-empire. K.