Architected for Performance—Virtualization Support on Nehalem and Westmere Processors

As use of Intel® Virtualization Technology for IA-32 and Intel 64 Architectures (Intel® VT-x) has grown, the demand for improved performance in virtualized systems has increased. The Intel® microarchitecture code name Nehalem and Intel® microarchitecture code name Westmere, have introduced extensions to Intel VT-x and its underlying hardware support to meet these increasing performance demands....