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More details about Transitive’s hardware hypnotizer / visualizer, mentioned in this space previously, are available in ExtremeTech’s analysis, Transitive Debuts Virtual CPU Tech

The QuickTransit technology uses a core kernel, with a modular back end that plugs into the target hardware. Likewise, a series of modular front ends provide a limited number of architectures that the technology can virtualize, with more on the way.

For now, the company is offering four target modules — in other words, the physical processors the technology will run on: Itanium, Opteron, the Pentium 4 X86 architecture, and the PowerPC.

On all four architectures, the QuickTransit technology can virtualize any mainframe OS, the company said. In addition, the Itanium, Opteron and X86 back-ends will virtualize the MIPS architecture. Both the Opteron and X86 products will also allow a virtualized POWER or PowerPC architecture to be run on it; likewise, a PowerPC chip can also run an X86-designed OS, such as Windows, on top of it.