Open main menu
Home
Random
Recent changes
Special pages
Community portal
Preferences
About Wikipedia
Disclaimers
Incubator escapee wiki
Search
User menu
Talk
Dark mode
Contributions
Create account
Log in
Editing
Itanium
(section)
Warning:
You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you
log in
or
create an account
, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.
Anti-spam check. Do
not
fill this in!
=== Virtualization and emulation === HP sells a [[OS-level virtualization|virtualization]] technology for Itanium called [[HP Integrity Virtual Machines|Integrity Virtual Machines]]. [[Emulator|Emulation]] is a technique that allows a computer to execute binary code that was compiled for a different type of computer. Before IBM's acquisition of [[QuickTransit]] in 2009, application binary software for [[IRIX]]/[[MIPS architecture|MIPS]] and [[Solaris (operating system)|Solaris]]/[[SPARC]] could run via type of emulation called "dynamic binary translation" on Linux/Itanium. Similarly, HP implemented a method to execute PA-RISC/HP-UX on the Itanium/HP-UX via emulation, to simplify migration of its PA-RISC customers to the radically different Itanium instruction set. Itanium processors can also run the mainframe environment [[General Comprehensive Operating System|GCOS]] from [[Groupe Bull]] and several [[x86]] operating systems via [[instruction set simulator]]s.
Edit summary
(Briefly describe your changes)
By publishing changes, you agree to the
Terms of Use
, and you irrevocably agree to release your contribution under the
CC BY-SA 4.0 License
and the
GFDL
. You agree that a hyperlink or URL is sufficient attribution under the Creative Commons license.
Cancel
Editing help
(opens in new window)