Intel Amt Software And Drivers; Intel Virtualization Technology (Intel Vt) - Intel DQ45CB Technical Product Specification

Intel Desktop Board DQ45CB Technical Product Specification
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Intel AMT Software and Drivers

Intel AMT software and drivers are available from Intel's World Wide Web site. The
package consists of two separate drivers: one for the Management Engine Interface
(MEI) and one for the Local Manageability Service (LMS) plus Serial over LAN (SoL).
For information about
Obtaining Intel AMT software and drivers
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Intel Virtualization Technology (Intel
support virtualization of platforms based on Intel processors, thereby enabling the
running of multiple operating systems and applications in independent partitions. Each
partition behaves like a virtual machine (VM) and provides isolation and protection
across partitions. This hardware-based virtualization solution, along with virtualization
software, enables multiple usages such as server consolidation, activity partitioning,
workload isolation, embedded management, legacy software migration, and disaster
recovery.
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Intel Virtualization Technology (Intel VT)

Hardware support for processor virtualization enables simple, robust and reliable
VMM software. VMM software relies on hardware support on operational details for
the handling of events, exceptions, and resources allocated to virtual machines.
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Intel VT-d provides additional performance, security and flexibility by providing the
VMM with the following capabilities:
⎯ I/O device assignment: for flexibly assigning I/O devices to VMs and extending
the protection and isolation properties of VMs for I/O operations.
⎯ DMA remapping: for supporting independent address translations for Direct
Memory Accesses (DMA) from devices.
⎯ Interrupt remapping: for supporting isolation and routing of interrupts from
devices and external interrupt controllers to appropriate VMs.
⎯ Reliability: for recording and reporting to system software DMA and interrupt
errors that may otherwise corrupt memory or impact VM isolation.
NOTE
Intel VT requires the use of a processor with Intel VT support. Additionally, a third
party VMM may also be required.
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Virtualization Technology (Intel
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VT) consists of technology components that
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VT) for Directed I/O (Intel
Refer to
Section 1.3, page 14
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