Comment Re:In theory yes (Score 1) 449
There are a number of possible options to having virtualization built into the hardware. This has some very distinct performance advantages over software based virtualization (VMWare, Virtual PC, etc.) as there is no additional software layer required. In addition, hardware (firmware) based virtualization has been well proven in the IBM server lines (Unix and AS/400).
The possibility that I see for a desktop user would be to have a separate OS instance that is optimized for running games. By dynamically changing CPU and memory utilization, users would be able to use a highly optimized environment for gaming that wouldn't touch their other applications, and would be constantly available.
The possibility that I see for a desktop user would be to have a separate OS instance that is optimized for running games. By dynamically changing CPU and memory utilization, users would be able to use a highly optimized environment for gaming that wouldn't touch their other applications, and would be constantly available.
