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[Xen-devel] VMX: emulated guest use SYSENTER MSRs

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Subject: [Xen-devel] VMX: emulated guest use SYSENTER MSRs
From: "Jan Beulich" <jbeulich@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 06 Jul 2007 13:41:16 +0100
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What is the reason for not simply clearing the MSR bitmap bits for these three
MSRs, and rather handling the reads/writes in software?

Jan


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