Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Use CPUID to communicate with the hypervisor. | From | Alok Kataria <> | Date | Fri, 26 Sep 2008 22:37:14 -0700 |
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On Fri, 2008-09-26 at 21:20 -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > Alok Kataria wrote: > > > > Avoiding existing leaves, > > Microsoft's Hypervisor is using levels 0x40000000 - 0x40000005. > > The first 2 are standard levels and the rest of them are Microsoft > > hypervisors specific levels. So started with 0x40000010. > > > > The first two? And standard according to whom? I was just quoting Microsoft's documentation that's available on MSDN. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb969724.aspx
Maybe by standard they mean standard definitions for them, the meaning of the rest of the definitions change according to the value returned by leaf 0x40000001 (Hypervisor vendor-neutral interface id).
Thanks, Alok > > -hpa
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