Windows 8 gets Hyper-V integration
With a baked-in Type 1 hypervisor, various kinds of use cases that have been mooted for virtualisation will become possible, such as running separate corporate and personal desktop environments side by side, simultaneously, on the same machine.
According to OS News, the Hyper-V implementation in Windows 8 requires Second Level Address Translation, a processor feature that only more recent processors support. Intel calls it Extended Page Table, and it is supported on Core i3, i5 and i7 processors, as well as on Pentium G6950 and modern Xeons. AMD calls it Rapid Virtualisation Indexing, and it is supported on AMD 10h processors.
Microsoft has also contributed to the Linux core through a relationship with Hyper-V, allowing Windows 8 computers to run a diverse range of Windows and Linux operating systems, notes GNT.
The integration of Hyper-V will allow 32-bit and 64-bit virtual machines to be run at the same time as the host operating system. Microsoft reminds users they will need to have a licence for the operating system that is being used in the virtual machine.
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