No VT? No fair to *any* of the platforms reviewed. [LWN.net]

No VT? No fair to any of the platforms reviewed.

Posted Feb 14, 2008 15:35 UTC (Thu) by sg7jimr (guest, #22837)
In reply to: No VT? No fair to *any* of the platforms reviewed. by walken
Parent article: Virtualization in Linux: A Review of Four Software Choices (Techthrob.com)

This statement about VMWare not using VT is not completely accurate.  In order to have 64 bit
virtual machines an Intel processor must have VT extensions for VMWare to allow it to run.
That implies that VMWare does in fact make use of VT to some extent.  It was not only necessary
for the processor to support VT but those extensions had to be enabled in the BIOS, so it
seems a real dependency and not some marketing thing.

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