Re: [Xen-devel] Native hypercall basics using int 82

["hnrkssn hnrkssn" <hnrkssn@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks, 
It's working like a charm. 

A background question, why does it "emulate Hyper-V"? Is it configurable?


Regards
David

On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 11:59 AM, Keir Fraser <keir.fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

We relocate the Xen CPUID info when we emulate Hyper-V. You need to scan for the Xen signature — starting at 0x40000000 and then every 0x100 up to 0x40001000. If you find the signature then you have found the contiguous range of Xen CPUID leaves. I should fix xen-detect.c to do this scan.

 -- Keir

On 16/12/2008 10:33, "hnrkssn hnrkssn" <hnrkssn@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I have already tried the CPUID approach used in xen-detect.c
When I read the info from leaf 0x40000001, it says "Microsoft Hv" when I run it on Citrix XenServer Express Edition.
I thought "Microsoft Hv" was supposed to identify Hyper-V?

So I have to try another method.
Can anybody give me some hints on my assembler example in the initial post for making a hypercall?

---
char buffer[256];
HYPERCALL hypercall;
PHYPERCALL phypercall = &hypercall;

hypercall.op     = 17;                       // xen_version
hypercall.arg[0] = (unsigned long) 1; // xen_extra_version
hypercall.arg[1] = (unsigned long) Buffer;

memset(Buffer, 0, sizeof(Buffer));

_asm
  {
    MOV EAX, phypercall;
    INT 82;
  }

  Buffer[255] = '\0';
  
  Cprintf("Buf: %s\r\n", Buffer);



Best Regards,
David

On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 9:47 AM, Keir Fraser <keir.fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On 16/12/2008 08:39, "hnrkssn hnrkssn" <hnrkssn@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I'm trying to detect if I'm running as a guest in XEN hypervisor using a
> simple hypercall like __HYPERVISOR_xen_version with the XENVER_extraversion
> option.
> I cannot use any of the API functions for this so I'm trying to setup the
> required registers and call int 82 myself.
> This is what I do and unfortunately, it generates an exception 0xd when
> executing INT 82.
>
> Reading the source, I think I've figured out that I should put my arguments in
> a hypercall struct shown below. I might be wrong then.

See tools/misc/xen-detect.c for a nice approach that even works from user
space.

 -- Keir

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