On Tue, 2010-06-22 at 13:06 +0300, Avi Kivity wrote: > You have a set of MSRs for real hardware (actually several sets) > discoverable by cpuid bits. You have another set of MSRs, using other > indexes, discoverable by more CPUID bits. > > The new MSR indexes will always #GP on real hardware, but will be > trapped and serviced by kvm. In effect kvm will pretend to have a > hardware-like PMU but done according to its own specifications. So what's the point? I thought the whole MSR interface thing was purely to let other-o$ play with the PMU, but if you move it around like that and make it KVM specific, nobody will find it... -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
