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From: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: Userspace MSR handling
Date: Mon, 25 May 2009 14:31:51 +0300
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Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
> On 05/25/09 13:20, Avi Kivity wrote:
>> It should have been implemented as mmio. Maybe implement an ioctl that
>> converts rdmsr/wrmsr to equivalent mmios?
>>
>> struct kvm_msr_mmio {
>> __u32 msr;
>> __u32 nr;
>> __u64 mmio;
>> __u32 flags;
>> __u32 pad[3];
>> }
>
> Funny way to tunnel msr access through the existing interface.
> Should work though I think.

I'm not happy with it.

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