X2 motherboards

[Pedro Fernandes Macedo]

G. Vamsee Krishna wrote:

> That's some real specs. Impressive.
>
> And I got a question. On a single-core processor, we can run only ONE 
> operating system at a time. That OS takes care of all the management 
> behind the scenes. So, is it really possible to run 2 OSs at a time on 
> a dual-core processor?

AFAIK , on current dual core CPUs , no. There's some technologies being 
worked on (I think one of them is called Vanderpool by Intel ) that 
theoretically will allow virtualization on the CPU level... Probably 
it'll be something like Xen on steroids...

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Pedro Macedo