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From: Stefan Fritsch <sf@sfritsch.de>
Subject: Re: Hypercall for sleeping for some amount of time?
Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2015 21:36:24 +0100
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On Friday 23 January 2015 12:58:20, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> On 23/01/2015 12:18, Stefan Fritsch wrote:
> > Wasn't there some issue that Windows guests would then ask for a
> > driver? AIUI, pvpanic has been disabled by default for this
> > reason.
> > Also, it would be nice if simplistic bootloaders without ACPI
> > support would also be able to use the feature.
> 
> That was only XP and perhaps 2003.  I think this is a very
> specialized usecase.  In most cases you can use hlt.

OK, I will give it a try.

Stefan