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From: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Ignore DEBUGCTL MSRs
Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2008 10:19:05 +0300
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Alexander Graf wrote:
>
> Corrected patch follows...
>
> ---
>
> Netware writes to DEBUGCTL and reads from the DEBUGCTL and LAST*IP 
> MSRs without further checks and is really confused to receive a #GP 
> during that. To make it happy we should just make them stubs, which is 
> exactly what SVM already does.
>
> Writes to DEBUGCTL that are vendor-specific are resembled to behave as 
> if the virtual CPU does not know them.
>

Applied, thanks.


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