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Transitive announced in August 2006 that it had commenced developing the first of several projects for IBM that would deliver the benefits of cross-platform virtualization to IBM hardware platforms. The first project, known as IBM PowerVM Lx86, began shipping in January 2008, and is available to all IBM Power Systems customers. IBM PowerVM Lx86 allows native Linux/x86 applications to run unmodified on the Linux/Power operating system.
The IBM white paper x86 Linux application consolidation on Power Systems platforms using IBM virtualization technologies describes the capabilities of IBM PowerVM Lx86.“ Transitive has successfully solved an age-old problem that software engineers have been trying to solve for years. This technology, which for the first time provides true instruction set architecture (ISA) independence, has tremendous potential to impact the entire computing industry, and its synergies with other emerging virtualization technologies are very exciting indeed. ”
Dr Mendel Rosenblum
Associate Professor
Stanford University