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Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2012 12:21:37 +0200
From: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>
To: zhangyanfei <zhangyanfei@cn.fujitsu.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] Export offsets of VMCS fields as note information
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Hi,

On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 09:39:43AM +0800, zhangyanfei wrote:
> The problem is that VMCS internal is hidden by Intel in its
> specification. So, we reverse engineering it in the way implemented in
> this patch set.

Have you made sure this layout is the same on all uarchitectures that
implment VMX?


	Joerg

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