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From: Thomas Treutner <thomas@scripty.at>
Subject: Re: Virtualization Performance: Intel vs. AMD
Date: Sun, 15 Nov 2009 16:55:07 +0100
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On Sunday 15 November 2009 14:05:52 Neil Aggarwal wrote:
> I prefer AMD CPUs, they give you a better bang for the buck.
> Besides that, I don't think they would be any technical
> differences, they are supposed to be completely compatible.
> I have seen no evidence to the contrary.

Isn't AMD the only one who has hardware support for nested virtualization? Or 
isn't that true any longer? Anyways, I'm just curious, as this feature is 
primarily interesting for development, IMHO.


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