Vanan,

the short answer is NO.

The long answer is NO as it doesn't make any sense. The industry is dropping Itanium Vs endorsing it. Ten years ago Itanium was supposed to be the next generation Intel architecture, right now Intel is just waiting (and looking forward) to pull the plug as soon as they can. I am saying this to add a "don't hold your breath" on the long answer to your question.

Massimo.

Hello,

However, HP has developed some sort of VM technology for the Itanium. It used to be called HP VM. If you have a bunch of Itaniums you may want to investigate this option.


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Edward L. Haletky
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Hello,

Pity that VmMware has not given support for Itanium chipset earlier.

Anyway, HP VMs work well on Itanium. Here is one

of my IA64 servers with virtual machines:

Virtual Machine Name VM # OS Type State #VCPUs #Devs #Nets Memory Runsysid
==================== ===== ======= ========= ====== ===== ===== ======

vm-hpuxv3a 1 HPUX On (OS) 1 2 2 2 GB 0
vm-hpuxv3b 2 HPUX On (OS) 1 2 2 2 GB 0
vm-rhel51 5 LINUX On (OS) 1 7 2 2 GB 0
vm-rhel53 8 LINUX On (OS) 1 2 2 2 GB 0
vm-win2003 9 WINDOWS On (OS) 1 2 2 2 GB 0
vm-sles11 10 LINUX On (OS) 1 2 2 2 GB 0

Next year, I even plan to add OpenVMS VM (not that it makes much difference to the masses

as OpenVMS is not for the faint-hearted)

Cheers,

VK2COT