[vbox-dev] Ring 3 cpuid

Micha Moffie mmoffie at ECE.NEU.EDU
Wed Jul 11 18:48:05 GMT 2007


Doesn't VBox use a different cpuid (CPUMGetGuestCpuId) for ring 0 ?
(called from remR3CpuId) I can see CPUMGetGuestCpuId being called...

Isn't there some inconsistency here?

Thanks so much,
:)
Micha.


On Wed, 11 Jul 2007, Alexey Eremenko wrote:

> This is correct. Full Virtualization and above usually use your normal CPU.
> Emulator make a different CPU.
>
> read here:
> http://forgeftp.novell.com/lfl/.html/virtualization.html
>
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> -Alexey Eremenko "Technologov"
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