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Re: [kvm-devel] [Qemu-devel] Re: expose host CPU features to guests

Subject: Re: [kvm-devel] [Qemu-devel] Re: expose host CPU features to guests
From: Avi Kivity
Date: Sun, 09 Sep 2007 19:38:43 +0300
Paul Brook wrote:
What you really want to do is ask your virtualization module what
features it supports.
Yes, that needs to be an additional filter.

I'd have thought that would be the *only* interesting set for autodetection.


Yes, you're right. It's pointless to issue cpuid in userspace and mask it in the kernel; rather we can issue it in the kernel , mask out unsupported features, and return it to userspace.

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