Il 24/07/2013 23:37, H. Peter Anvin ha scritto:
> What I'm suggesting is exactly that except that the native hypervisor is 
> later in CPUID space.

Me too actually.

I was just suggesting an implementation of the idea (that takes into
account hypervisors detected by other means than CPUID).

Paolo

> KY Srinivasan <k...@microsoft.com> wrote:
>> As Paolo suggested if there were some priority encoded, the guest could make 
>> an
>> informed decision. If the guest under question can run on both hypervisors A 
>> and B,
>> we would rather the guest discover hypervisor A when running on A and
>> hypervisor B when running on B. The priority encoding could be as simple as
>> surfacing the native hypervisor signature earlier in the CPUID space.

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