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Re: [Xen-devel] Re: [RFC] Hypercalls from HVM guests




On 12 Apr 2006, at 16:39, Stephen C. Tweedie wrote:


CPUID never faults. Well, unless the processor doesn't support the
instruction, but you find that out from EFLAGS.

What does vmx_vmexit_do_cpuid() do then?  I doubt there are many
VMX-capable CPUs without cpuid().  :-)

Yes, you can make cpuid trap to the hypervisor if running an hvm guest. But that's quite different from a guest-visible trap or fault.

 -- Keir


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