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YKhan
The specs for Pacifica have been released, which is AMD's answer to
Intel's Vanderpool virtualization.
According to this overview, there seems to be only two instructions
added to the regular x86 stack, which is VMRUN and VMCALL. Another
interesting new idea they've incorporated is is a "Paged Real Mode". So
it looks like they will be able to virtualize everything from 64-bit
OSes down to ancient 16-bit OSes.
Here's their overview Powerpoint:
http://search.amd.com/cs.html?url=h...tates+||+pacifica,+|+language:en&col=idx1&n=2
or,
http://tinyurl.com/7e8de
Yousuf Khan
Intel's Vanderpool virtualization.
According to this overview, there seems to be only two instructions
added to the regular x86 stack, which is VMRUN and VMCALL. Another
interesting new idea they've incorporated is is a "Paged Real Mode". So
it looks like they will be able to virtualize everything from 64-bit
OSes down to ancient 16-bit OSes.
Here's their overview Powerpoint:
http://search.amd.com/cs.html?url=h...tates+||+pacifica,+|+language:en&col=idx1&n=2
or,
http://tinyurl.com/7e8de
Yousuf Khan