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From: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@eu.citrix.com>
Subject: Re: vmcs_revision_id: do we care?
Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2008 16:18:16 +0000
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Daniel Li, le Wed 09 Jan 2008 11:13:48 -0500, a écrit :
> Based on what I've heard, both IBM and Intel have been telling people 
> this configuration is valid.  From what I was able to dig out, Intel in 
> their System Programming Guide: Virtual Machine Monitor Programming 
> Considerations, published Nov. 2007, suggested when loading a VMCS onto 
> a processor with a different vmcs_revision_id, instead of using VMPTRLD, 
> one should use VMREAD to read out each field then use VMWRITE to write 
> them back.

Which would mean quite some burden, even if valid... Buying a machine
that may require such slowdown is a no-go for me :)

Samuel