Avi Kivity wrote:
> Anthony Liguori wrote:
>>>
>>> Good movement!
>>>
>>> But, Vista won't work with patching. The memory guard in vista will 
>>> make the system refuse to service. Maybe we need a option
>>> to check if it is vista.
>>>       
>>
>> Are you sure that Vista isn't just verifying memory during 
>> startup/driver load?  Seems odd to periodically scan memory.
>>
>> In the recently released Windows Hypervisor specification, in section 
>> 13.2.2 (Local APIC Memory-mapped Accesses), it's dictated that the 
>> APIC can only be accessed through 6 instructions.  They are all >= 5 
>> byte instructions.  When I first saw that, I figured they were also 
>> patching.
>>   
>
> Six?  My hack patches five.  Which one did I miss?

FF /6  PUSH m32

Also note, that it says that all addresses are required to be 4-byte 
aligned.

Regards,

Anthony LIguori


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