"At the beginning of this year Intel decided to get behind an open-source project called Xen, the end result of which is to develop a virtualisation engine — or hypervisor — designed to allow multiple operating systems to run on a single server. The project came along at the perfect time for Intel--the chipmaker is building Virtualization Technology (VT) into chips beginning this year, but Windows won't support the feature for two or three years.
"Participants in the Xen project--also backed by Sun, HP, Novell, Red Hat, AMD, Voltaire and others--claim Intel's contribution has been substantial..."
