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IBM, which invented virtualization back in ‘ye ole mainframe days,’ has waded into the current discussion with entry-level virtualization for its Power6-based, usually Unix-run, System p servers and BladeCenter blades called PowerVM Express. Now, PowerVM, you should know, used to be known as Advanced Power Virtualization (APV) and has been available from IBM on Unix since 2004. What’s new here is that PowerVM lets p servers run x86 Linux binaries unmodified without recompilation. It’s a facility now dubbed Lx86 that IBM got from Transitive and beta’d as the Application Virtual Environment.

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