Re: [RFC] CPUID usage for interaction between Hypervisors and Linux.

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Alok Kataria wrote:
> 
> (This proposal may be adopted by other guest OSes.  However, that is not
> a requirement because a hypervisor can expose a different CPUID
> interface depending on the guest OS type that is specified by the VM
> configuration.)
> 

Excuse me, but that is blatantly idiotic.  Expecting the user having to 
configure a VM to match the target OS is *exactly* as stupid as 
expecting the user to reconfigure the BIOS.  It's totally the wrong 
thing to do.

	-hpa
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