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SubjectRe: [PATCH 7/9] KVM/VMX: Emulate MSR_IA32_ARCH_CAPABILITIES
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On Mon, 2018-02-19 at 14:10 +0100, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> > Hardware seems like a reasonable place to get the default value (cf.
> > the VMX capability MSRs).
>
> There are some differences:
>
> - a zero value for ARCH_CAPABILITIES should be safe, while a zero value
> for VMX capabilities doesn't really make sense.  On the contrary, a
> nonzero value for ARCH_CAPABILITIES is not safe across live migration.

Any VMM which is going to support live migration surely needs to pay at
least a small amount of attention to the features it exposes? Exposing
the ARCH_CAPABILITIES CPUID bit without actually looking at the
contents of the associated MSR which that bit advertises would be... a
little strange, would it not? 

I don't see why we care so much about the *default* value, in that
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