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




On 7 Apr 2006, at 20:30, Steve Ofsthun wrote:

Actually, maybe using an unused index for CPUID (e.g. 0xb0000000) would
be better? As that's defined to return all zero's, and not cause any
traps whatever value you use (unless the CPU is so old that it doesn't
support CPUID, of course).

This sounds encouraging, but is CPUID always trapped by the HVM code?

It can be, and in practise yes it is so this could work.

 -- Keir


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