Microsoft ships Beta 1 of Virtual Server service pack
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Microsoft has begun beta testing Service Pack 1 of Virtual Server 2005 R2, an update to the company's main virtualization platform that will add support for hardware virtualization in both Intel and AMD processors.
Beta 1 adds support for Intel's new VT processors.
What does that mean? If you're running on a VT enhanced processor, NON-Windows guests will run much faster as we're no longer performing ring compression as part of the emulated environment, John Howard, program manager for Windows virtualization, said Friday on his Weblog.