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From: Joerg Roedel <joro@8bytes.org>
Subject: Re: Virtulization instructions like "skinit" and "TXT" support
	inside KVM
Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2009 21:30:00 +0100
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On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 03:58:37AM +0100, Pravin wrote:
> Hi,
> I wanted to know how kvm handles special previlaged instructions
> provided for virtulization support like "skinit" in AMD and "TXT" in
> intel.
> Are they also virtualized in KVM..??
> 
> Is there any work going in this direction?
> Pointers to any documentations in this direction will be helpful to me.

Skinit is not virtualized on AMD systems and there is no plan to
implement this currently.

Joerg