Stephane Eranian wrote:
>>
>> If the guest cpuid is set to a least common denominator, it should work.
>>
>>     
> There is no common denominator between a P4 and Intel Core 2 Duo for the
> performance counters. So you cannot simply use a generic member of family
> 15 to fake the guest cpuid runnning on Intel Core 2 Duo host.
>
>   

So, the performance counter functionality will not be available if you 
have a mixed server farm with these processors.

If applications use model version to detect performance counters, and 
not cpuid bits, then there is no way to prevent guests using performance 
counters.  Fortunately this is limited to specialized applications.

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