AMD Opteron-based Servers to Provide Virtualization
 

Advanced Micro Devices, who pioneered 64-bit capability on x86 processors, said at LinuxWorld Conference & Expo, taking place February 15-17 in Boston, Massachusetts, servers based on AMD64 processors running Linux or Windows operating systems will be capable of the so-called virtualization technology using Xen from XenSource or Microsoft’s Virtual Server and Virtual PC software; providing new levels of security and robustness.


XenSource was recently founded to develop and support an open-source infrastructure virtualization technology, Xen. The Xen hypervisor, a high-performance, x86 virtual machine monitor (VMM), enables a single machine to run multiple operating systems efficiently while maintaining secure, resource guaranteed isolation between them. AMD also said customers can use other VMMs to enable virtualization on systems running Microsoft Windows operating systems.

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