AMD virtualization (AMD-V)

AMD virtualization (AMD-V)

AMD Phenom CPU die.

AMD developed its first generation virtualization extensions under the code name "Pacifica", and initially published them as AMD Secure Virtual Machine (SVM),^[17] but later marketed them under the trademark AMD Virtualization, abbreviated AMD-V.

On May 23, 2006, AMD released the Athlon 64 ("Orleans"), the Athlon 64 X2 ("Windsor") and the Athlon 64 FX ("Windsor") as the first AMD processors to support this technology.

AMD-V capability also features on the Athlon 64 and Athlon 64 X2 family of processors with revisions "F" or "G" on socket AM2, Turion 64 X2, and Opteron 2nd generation^[18] and 3rd-generation,^[19] Phenom and Phenom II processors. AMD-V is not supported by any Socket 939 processors. The only Sempron processors which support it are Huron and Sargas.

AMD Opteron CPUs beginning with the Family 0x10 Barcelona line, and Phenom II CPUs, support a second generation hardware virtualization technology called Rapid Virtualization Indexing (formerly known as Nested Page Tables during its development), later adopted by Intel asExtended Page Tables (EPT).

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