On Thu, Mar 22, 2007 at 02:33:50PM +0200, Avi Kivity wrote: > Joerg Roedel wrote: > >We agree that we should hide the monitor cpuid bit to the guest from the > >kernel level. Allowing the guest to use mwait if its available on the > >processor without proper virtualization would cause the processor to > >idle in the guest mode. > > > > I think it can be safely done from userspace, as long as host integrity is > not compromised.
Ok. This way is also most efficient because it does not require any further patching :) QEmu currently does not set this bit. -- Joerg Roedel Operating System Research Center AMD Saxony LLC & Co. KG ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ kvm-devel mailing list kvm-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/kvm-devel
