Yes it is, all Intel Core series include hardware virtualization.. now it depends on if your hardware, or motherboard supports it. Most do, except for some Sony laptops.
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My question is simple: If you look at the page of the processor I'm asking about, you can see that "Intel Virtualization Technology" enabled. Is this virtualization technology EQUAL to hardware virtualization? I mean hardware virtualization which is required for Windows XP mode in Windows 7 and hardware virtualization with Hyper-V.
http://ark.intel.com/Produ
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Could you tell me if this motherboard supports hardware virtualization or not?
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by: scifikillrPosted on 2009-11-03 at 10:38:03ID: 25731969
A snippet from http://www.computer.org/po rtal/web/c sdl/doi/10 .1109/ MC.2 005.163
tel Virtualization Technology
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Once confined to specialized server and mainframe systems, virtualization is now supported in off-the-shelf systems based on Intel architecture hardware. Intel Virtualization Technology provides hardware support for processor virtualization, enabling simplifications of virtual machine monitor software. Resulting VMMs can support a wider range of legacy and future operating systems while maintaining high performance."
It would appear that the answer to your question is: yes, Intel Virtualization appears to be the same thing has 'hardware virtualization'.