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From: Orit Wasserman <owasserm@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: VMXON region vs VMCS region?
Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2012 14:29:55 +0200
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On 01/31/2012 05:35 AM, Zhi Yong Wu wrote:
> HI,
> 
> Can anyone let me know know the difference  between VMXON region and
> VMCS region? relationship?
> 

There is no relationship between them:
VMXON region is created per logical processor and used by it for VMX ops.
VMCS region is created for each guest vcpu and used both by the hypervisor and the processor.

> It will be appreciated if you can make some comments.
> 
>