Technical information

Performance Best Practices for VMware vSphere 4.0
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Hardware-assisted MMU virtualization allows an additional level of page tables that map guest physical
memory to host physical memory addresses, eliminating the need for ESX to intervene to virtualize the MMU
in software.
For information about configuring the way ESX uses hardware virtualization, see “Configuring ESX for
Hardware-Assisted Virtualization” on page 21.