With the adoption of virtualization support on the x86 architecture, virtual machines are actively evolving and becoming mainstream. Compare and contrast the Intel VT-x and AMD Secure Virtual Machine (SVM) virtualization technologies. Information on AMD's SVM can be found in
www.amd.com/ us-en/assets/content_type/white_papers_and_tech_docs/24593.pdf.
a. How do VT-x and SVM handle privilege-sensitive instructions?
b. What do VT-x and SVM do to provide higher performance for memory-intensive applications with large memory footprints?