Microsoft's Virtualisation Roadmap
Friday, 12 August 2005 by Michel Roth
Intel and AMD are both working on providing full Hypervisor support at the CPU level, introducing a new CPU Ring (-1), with respective project codenames "Vanderpool" and "Pacifica". A thin layer of Windows virtualization technology will move to execute at Hypervisor CPU Ring -1 to take full advantage of hardware innovations from Intel and AMD.

Also worth checking out is the Virtualisation PPT from WinHEC.

Key points in this deck are:

• Virtualization is going into the OS in the Longhorn Server wave.
• Windows virtualization will be hypervisor based and take full advantage of hardware innovations from Intel and AMD in the forms of VT and Pacifica, respectively.
• Windows virtualization will provide 32-bit and 64-bit guests.
• We will have a smooth migration from path from Virtual Server to Windows virtualization.

Read more at the source.

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