From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Keir Fraser <keir@xensource.com>
Subject: Re: EFER in HVM guests
Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2006 13:09:45 +0000
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On 29/11/06 13:07, "Jan Beulich" <jbeulich@novell.com> wrote:

> Is it intentional that
> - under SVM, 32-bit guests can freely set EFER.LME
> - under VMX, 32-bit guests can't access EFER at all?
> 
> Thanks, Jan

I'm sure any differences are unintentional. There is obviously scope for
making much of the MSR and CPUID code non-vmx/svm specific.

I assume that this particular difference doesn't really matter?

 -- Keir