From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "H. Peter Anvin" Subject: Re: [RFC] CPUID usage for interaction between Hypervisors and Linux. Date: Wed, 01 Oct 2008 15:38:10 -0700 Message-ID: <48E3FBD2.5010007@zytor.com> References: <1222881242.9381.17.camel@alok-dev1> <48E3BBC1.2050607@goop.org> <48E3BC47.60900@zytor.com> <48E3BD83.2090801@goop.org> <48E3BE65.2050909@zytor.com> <48E3C32B.3090701@goop.org> <20081001203803.GB634@sequoia.sous-sol.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge , akataria@vmware.com, "avi@redhat.com" , Rusty Russell , Gerd Hoffmann , Ingo Molnar , the arch/x86 maintainers , LKML , "Nakajima, Jun" , Dan Hecht , Zachary Amsden , virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org To: Chris Wright Return-path: Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:58264 "EHLO terminus.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752558AbYJAWm1 (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Oct 2008 18:42:27 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20081001203803.GB634@sequoia.sous-sol.org> Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Chris Wright wrote: > * Jeremy Fitzhardinge (jeremy@goop.org) wrote: >> "What hypervisor is this?" isn't a very interesting question; if you're >> even asking it then it suggests that something has gone wrong. > > It's essentially already happening. Everyone wants to be a better > hyperv than hyperv ;-) That's a hy-perv? ;) -hpa