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With some motherboards, users must enable Intel's VT-x feature in the BIOS setup before applications can make use of it. [ 23 ] Intel started to include Extended Page Tables (EPT), [ 24 ] a technology for page-table virtualization, [ 25 ] since the Nehalem architecture, [ 26 ] [ 27 ] released in 2008.
Instruction set extensions that have been added to the x86 instruction set in order to support hardware virtualization.These extensions provide instructions for entering and leaving a virtualized execution context and for loading virtual-machine control structures (VMCSs), which hold the state of the guest and host, along with fields which control processor behavior within the virtual machine.
Westmere and later Intel processors usually [15] can start the virtual processor directly in real mode using the "unrestricted guest" feature (which itself requires Extended Page Tables); this method removes the need to resort to the nested virtual 8086 mode simply to run the legacy BIOS for booting.
Intel AMT is the set of management and security features built into vPro PCs that makes it easier for a sys-admin to monitor, maintain, secure, and service PCs. [11] Intel AMT (the management technology) is sometimes mistaken for being the same as Intel vPro (the PC "platform"), because AMT is one of the most visible technologies of an Intel vPro-based PC.
VirtualBox supports both Intel's VT-x and AMD's AMD-V hardware-assisted virtualization. Making use of these facilities, VirtualBox can run each guest VM in its own separate address-space; the guest OS ring 0 code runs on the host at ring 0 in VMX non-root mode rather than in ring 1.
Below is the full 8086/8088 instruction set of Intel (81 instructions total). [2] These instructions are also available in 32-bit mode, in which they operate on 32-bit registers (eax, ebx, etc.) and values instead of their 16-bit (ax, bx, etc.) counterparts.
Virtual Machine Extensions Enable: see Intel VT-x x86 virtualization. 14: SMXE: Safer Mode Extensions Enable: see Trusted Execution Technology (TXT) 15 [a] (Reserved) — 16: FSGSBASE: FSGSBASE Enable: If set, enables the instructions RDFSBASE, RDGSBASE, WRFSBASE, and WRGSBASE. 17: PCIDE: PCID Enable: If set, enables process-context identifiers ...
The vast majority of Intel server chips of the Xeon E3, Xeon E5, and Xeon E7 product lines support VT-d. The first—and least powerful—Xeon to support VT-d was the E5502 launched Q1'09 with two cores at 1.86 GHz on a 45 nm process. [2] Many or most Xeons subsequent to this support VT-d.