[libvirt] [RFC] Support for CPUID masking
Jiri Denemark
jdenemar at redhat.com
Thu Sep 3 08:34:23 UTC 2009
> > We need to provide support for CPU ID masking. Xen and VMware ESX are examples
> > of current hypervisors which support such masking.
> >
> > My proposal is to define new 'cpuid' feature advertised in guest
> > capabilities:
> ...
> > <domain type='xen' id='42'>
> > ...
> > <features>
> > <pae/>
> > <acpi/>
> > <apic/>
> > <cpuid>
> > <mask level='1' register='ebx'>
> > xxxx:xxxx:0000:1010:xxxx:xxxx:xxxx:xxxx
> > </mask>
> ...
> > What are your opinions about this?
>
> I think it's too low-level, and the structure is x86-specific.
Hmm, right, it's only for x86... I'll come up with something better.
Jirka
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