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[Qemu-devel] Re: Host API escape
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Ben Pfaff |
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[Qemu-devel] Re: Host API escape |
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Mon, 13 Sep 2004 22:23:48 -0700 |
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Derek Fawcus <address@hidden> writes:
> On Mon, Sep 13, 2004 at 10:43:00PM -0400, EricNorthup wrote:
>> What if you use the WRMSR instructions instead? Then you can define
>> MSRs which have certain behavior when written to / read from. The whole
>> point of MSRs is that they are model-specific, and that is the way to do
>> this compatibly.
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> Hmm - a possibility.
For what it's worth, VMware products use a magic I/O port for
guest<->host communication according to
http://chitchat.at.infoseek.co.jp/vmware/backdoor.html
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