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From: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] About qemu emulation speed (a question) and	supported OS
Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2005 13:46:58 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <43287022.3090106@us.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050914133921.GB6052@jbrown.mylinuxbox.org>

Jim C. Brown wrote:

>On Tue, Sep 13, 2005 at 11:27:39PM -0500, Anthony Liguori wrote:
>  
>
>>I reckon kqemu has this same problem... Technically, even in ring 3, if 
>>you run natively, you violate the Popek/Goldberg requirements because of 
>>cpuid.  It's just not possible to trap it but it shouldn't matter for 
>>most software.
>>
>>    
>>
>
>It is possible to trap it, in a sense. You just read ahead and replace the
>cpuid instruction with something else.
>  
>
You can't readahead beyond a basic block.  Taking a trap for each basic 
block and translating the block is what QEMU does.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

>Ugly, but doable.
>
>  
>

  reply	other threads:[~2005-09-14 19:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-09-13 12:36 [Qemu-devel] About qemu emulation speed (a question) and supported OS Alexandre Leclerc
2005-09-13 13:08 ` Adrian Smarzewski
2005-09-13 18:02   ` Alexandre Leclerc
2005-09-13 13:38 ` Jim C. Brown
2005-09-13 14:58   ` Anthony Liguori
2005-09-13 21:48     ` Jim C. Brown
2005-09-14  0:18       ` Mark Williamson
2005-09-14  2:48       ` Anthony Liguori
2005-09-14  3:48         ` Mark Williamson
2005-09-14  4:27           ` Anthony Liguori
2005-09-14  4:58             ` Mike Swanson
2005-09-14 13:39             ` Jim C. Brown
2005-09-14 18:46               ` Anthony Liguori [this message]
2005-09-14 22:42                 ` Jim C. Brown
2005-09-14 13:37         ` Jim C. Brown
2005-09-14 15:47           ` Henrik Nordstrom
2005-09-14 17:53             ` Mark Williamson
2005-09-14 17:18           ` John R. Hogerhuis
2005-09-14 22:34             ` Jim C. Brown
2005-09-14 17:46           ` Mark Williamson
2005-09-15 21:26           ` Karl Magdsick
2005-09-15 23:24             ` Mark Williamson

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