Comments on: What Hardware Virtualization Really Means

By: Jibu

Jibu — Tue, 25 Jan 2011 08:02:40 +0000

Thank you for this doc. Can you please help me with this also. Are there any virtual machines which can start and load the guest os before the login of Host OS, So that it can run with Superuser permissions? Also are there are any virtualization softwares that can be started directly at boot that dont need a HOST OS(that is the virtualization software itself does that part of HOST OS also)?

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By: Elaine

Elaine — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 14:52:28 +0000

If the technology isn't readily available on any chip then they should have kept that information to themselves. The misunderstandings are because of misleading information.

By: Kapil Bamba

Kapil Bamba — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 12:32:56 +0000

Thanks for a very nice explaination.

I am a VB 6/.Net programmer and need different versions of software to support my various clients.

I am about to upgrade my laptop (Pentium 1.6, 3GB, 320GB) and use XP inside host Vista's Microsoft Virtual PC extensively to run some old versions like SQL Server 2000 while my host Vista runs SQL Server 2008.

I was wondering if an Intel processor with hardware virtualization would make more sense than one without it. If there is not much speed difference/improvement between the two, I would like to save some money and choose a Dell Studio with Intel's T6600. Please advise.

Thnaks and regards
Kapil

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Introduction to Hardware Virtualization : Hardware Virtualization Pro — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 12:24:55 +0000

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By: Ralph

Ralph — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 15:38:12 +0000

Very helpful…Thanks

By: bsnote

bsnote — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 09:52:45 +0000

Hi Gleb.

I am concerned about one thing.
Does virtualization affect system performance if I actually have no software that uses this feature? Will i benefit from disabling this feature? Or it doesn't matter?

Thanks,
Andrei

By: Chong

Chong — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 13:17:48 +0000

Is Vmware hardware or software virtualization?

By: Igor Levicki

Igor Levicki — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 14:33:52 +0000

Might be beneficial to update the article with new info — VirtualBox is now at version 3.0, can use hardware virtualization, and has a host of new features such as DirectX and OpenGL support in guest operating systems.