Re: [PATCH 34/36] vircpuhost: Add support for reading MSRs

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On Mon, Apr 08, 2019 at 10:42:38AM +0200, Jiri Denemark wrote:
> The new virHostCPUGetMSR internal API will try to read the MSR from
> /dev/cpu/0/msr and if it is not possible (the device does not exist or
> libvirt is running unprivileged), it will fallback to asking KVM for the
> MSR using KVM_GET_MSRS ioctl.

Is there benefit to using /dev/cpu/0/msr, instead of always using
/dev/kvm ?


Regards,
Daniel
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