At the Intel Developer Forum (IDF) 2008, Intel showed on stage its upcoming new quad-core CPU codename Nehalem, much expected by the
virtualization professionals because of the included Extended Page Tables (EPT) technology.
On top of that now there's another reason to wait for Nehalem: the processor will support a new technology developed by VMware and called VMDirectPath.
VMDirectPath will allow ESX to avoid the emulation of network interface cards and map the physical NICs directly to the virtual machines:
To learn more and to read the entire article at its source, please refer to the following page, VMware unveils VMDirectPath technology, Intel to support it with Nehalem - Hyper Info