From: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@xxxxxxxxx> Sent: Thursday, March 24, 2022 12:45 PM > > On 3/24/22, Michael Kelley (LINUX) <mikelley@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > From: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@xxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Tuesday, March 22, 2022 3:07 > > PM > >> > >> On Tue, 22 Mar 2022 at 20:59, Michael Kelley (LINUX) > >> <mikelley@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> > > >> > The Hyper-V guys pass along their thanks for your suggestion. They > >> > have > >> > created an internal build with the change and verified that it > >> > preserves > >> > compatibility with Windows guests. I've tested with Linux guests and > >> > Jason's new driver (modified to look for "VMGENCTR"), and it all looks > >> > good. > >> > It will take a little while to wend its way through the Windows/Hyper-V > >> > release system, but they are planning to take the change. > >> > > >> > >> Thanks for reporting back. > >> > >> Will the spec be updated accordingly? > > > > The Hyper-V team is looking into updating the spec. The document > > is 10 years old, so they need to find the original source for the PDF. > > > > Lol, here's the docx: > https://download.microsoft.com/download/3/1/C/31CFC307-98CA-4CA5-914C-D9772691E214/VirtualMachineGenerationID.docx Indeed! My mistake. I just assumed it was a PDF without even looking at it. :-( Somebody internally here also just commented that it was weird to have a .docx file posted for download. Regardless, that removes one hurdle to making updates! Michael
