Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 01 Oct 2008 11:06:25 -0700 | From | Jeremy Fitzhardinge <> | Subject | Re: [RFC] CPUID usage for interaction between Hypervisors and Linux. |
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Alok Kataria wrote: > Its not a user who has to do anything special here. > There are *intelligent* VM developers out there who can export a > different CPUid interface depending on the guest OS type. And this is > what most of the hypervisors do (not necessarily for CPUID, but for > other things right now). >
No, that's always a terrible idea. Sure, its necessary to deal with some backward-compatibility issues, but we should even consider a new interface which assumes this kind of thing. We want properly enumerable interfaces.
J
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