VMware's ESX Server 3i does support AMD's nested paging tables

AT AMD'S QUAD-CORE BARCELONA launch event in Barcelona, VMWare's Steve Jackson, director of EMEA Strategic Partners told his attentive audience that the company's software does not support the chip's nested tables technology.

The confession was dutifully reported by our Theo here.

The story prompted a presumably red-faced Steve to get in touch to let us know he'd got it wrong. Here's his missive in full:

To clarify the situation with regards to VMware's support for AMD's Barcelona chipset, I would like to say that I made an error in describing the level of support that is present for Nested Paging Tables, or Rapid Virtualisation Indexing as AMD is now calling this feature, within VMware's product line-up and particularly within VMware ESX Server 3i. ESX Server 3i does support the new feature, and customers will automatically benefit from support for RVI when they buy any server with the Barcelona chipset and ESX Server 3i installed. ESX Server 3i is shipping later in the year as part of servers from the likes of Dell, IBM, HP and Fujitsu Siemens as well as other hardware vendors.

As RVI becomes more widely available, other products within the VMware line-up will support this feature as well. VMware and AMD are working closely together to improve performance levels overall, and we will continue to support the industry in delivering virtualisation solutions to our customers around infrastructure optimisation, business continuity and disaster recovery.

Steve Jackson, Director, EMEA Strategic Partners, VMware

Hats of to Steve for fessing up so frankly. µ