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Intel^® Virtualization Technology

Volume 10 Issue 03 Published August 10, 2006
ISSN 1535-864X DOI: 10.1535/itj.1003

Foreword

	Intel® Virtualization Technology: Taking Virtualization Mainstream on Intel® Architecture Platforms
	By Rich Uhlig Senior Principal Engineer, Intel VT Architect, Corporate Technology Group

Current Articles

Intel® Virtualization Technology Architectures

	Intel® Virtualization Technology: Hardware Support for Efficient Processor Virtualization
	Learn how Intel^® Virtualization Technology addresses virtualization challenges and simplifies the task of writing a virtual-machine monitor.

	Intel® Virtualization Technology for Directed I/O
	Performance, scalability, cost, trust, reliability, and availability all require support for I/O virtualization. Discover how Intel^® Virtualization Technology for Directed I/O (VT-d) extends Intel’s VT roadmap to include new support for I/O-device virtualization.

Virtual Machine Monitor Enabling with Intel^® Virtualization Technology

	Extending Xen* with Intel® Virtualization Technology
	Xen* is an open source virtual machine monitor that supports operating systems modified to run on top of the monitor. Learn about architectural extensions and optimization to Xen using Intel^® Virtualization Technology.

New and Extended Virtualization Usage Models

	New Client Virtualization Usage Models Using Intel® Virtualization Technology
	Learn how Intel^® Virtualization Technology creates the ideal virtualized environment for a host of provisioning manageability and diagnostic applications for the IT professional.

	Intel® Virtualization Technology in Embedded and Communications Infrastructure Applications
	Discover the unique requirements that embedded systems and communications infrastructure equipment place on virtualized environments and learn how Intel is working to extend the benefits of Intel^® Virtualization Technology.

	Virtualization in the Enterprise
	Take a look at key enterprise services and applications used within Intel’s IT department and examine the issues associated with virtualizing servers within the context of those services and also present new IT use cases and a production deployment of virtualization.

Virtualization Performance

	Redefining Server Performance Characterization for Virtualization Benchmarking
	Survey the challenges and opportunities in virtualization performance characterization and then examine a proposed workload methodology and an example application to illustrate it.

Preface


	Lin Chao Publisher Intel Technology Journal Virtualization technology has a long history in computer science. It was Christopher Strachey who first published a paper entitled "Time Sharing in Large Fast Computers" in the International Conference on Information Processing at UNESCO, New York, in June 1959, and he commented that his paper, "...was mainly about multi-programming (to avoid waiting for peripherals)." Virtualization today is a methodology whereby the resources of a computer are divided into multiple execution environments, by applying one or more technologies such as hardware and software partitioning, time-sharing, partial or complete machine simulation, emulation, or quality of service. This issue of the Intel Technology Journal (Volume 10, Issue 3) reviews virtualization, especially Intel^® Virtualization Technology (Intel^® VT). These seven technical papers describe the key capabilities of virtualization on Intel’s hardware and software platforms and the virtualization roadmap for both Intel^® Architecture and Intel^® Itanium^® processors. Intel VT is part of a collection of premier Intel designed and manufactured silicon technologies... more.