On 22 Mar 2006, at 08:35, Zachary Amsden wrote: > That's pretty heinous. Suppose Xen decides to start supporting any of > these features. Now, you need to change all of the Xen modified > kernels to remove pieces of this. Well, old kernels would still work and most of those features aren't all that useful in a virtualised environment anyway. But, point taken, adding a hypervisor trap for CPUID and making use of it would clean up that code. -- Keir