Re: Use CPUID to communicate with the hypervisor.

[Avi Kivity]

Gleb Natapov wrote:
> Can this interface be used to pass variable sized data from a hypervisor
> to a gust? ACPI or DMI tables for instance.
>
>   

In theory it can, but it would be a bad idea.  cpuid is best used to 
communicate cpu features; ACPI and DMI are (mostly) system features.

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