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From: Thomas Treutner <thomas@scripty.at>
Subject: Re: Virtualization Performance: Intel vs. AMD
Date: Sun, 15 Nov 2009 16:56:56 +0100
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On Sunday 15 November 2009 13:22:36 Andreas Winkelbauer wrote:
> Now my question is: Are there any important differences in terms of
> virtualization performance and/or features between the current Intel/AMD
> CPUs (e.g. Core i7 "Lynnfield" and Phenom II X4 "Deneb")?

The Core i7 has hyperthreading, so you see 8 logical CPUs. But don't ask me if 
that's really an advantage for doing virtualization ;-)


-t