Re: [RFC] CPUID usage for interaction between Hypervisors andLinux.

[Chris Wright]

* Anthony Liguori (anthony@xxxxxxxxxxxxx) wrote:
> We've already gone down the road of trying to make standard paravirtual  
> interfaces (via virtio).  No one was sufficiently interested in  
> collaborating.  I don't see why other paravirtualizations are going to  
> be much different.

The point is to be able to support those interfaces.  Presently a Linux guest
will test and find out which HV it's running on, and adapt.  Another
guest will fail to enlighten itself, and perf will suffer...yadda, yadda.

thanks,
-chris
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