Good article from AnandTech on the new Intel 5600 series processors. Pay special close attention to the Virtualization Round Trip Latency graph and explanation. This is one of the key reasons that virtualized guests continue to improve in performance and close the gap to a physical host.
I’m a VMware guy myself but since we cross-train, I wanted to post this for the rest of the team. I also thought it might be good info to share as I was asked by a customer this question. A quick search found this Citrix Knowledge Center How-To document which does an excellent step-by-step walkthrough with screenshots on the conversion process.
