Right now there are two embedded cores from Intel called "Atom": Silverthorne, which implements VT virtualization support, and Diamondville, which doesn't.
VirtualLogix just announced a port of VLX to Atom Z530, which is a Silverthorne core, though I have no firsthand knowledge if they use VT or not (too technical for a press release I guess). I would assume they do, since that's the only way to virtualize Windows, which they advertise elsewhere on their site.
Interestingly, Intel reported at KVM Forum 2008 that they had run Xen and KVM on Atom (Silverthorne) without problem. (I guess that's the value of a common instruction set...) The biggest issue they faced was at the system level: some Atom systems just don't have enough RAM to run more than one or two guests.
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