On Mon, 2020-11-30 at 12:03 +0100, Paolo Bonzini wrote: > You can use CPUID too (search for Hv#1 in leaf 0x40000000)? That's leaf 0x40000001. Which is also the leaf used for Xen to indicate the Xen version. So as long as we don't pretend to be Xen version 12759.30280 I suppose that's OK. Or we could just check leaf 0x40000000 for 'Microsoft Hv'? Or both. How about... #define HYPERV_CPUID_INTERFACE_MAGIC 0x31237648 /* 'Hv#1' */ static inline bool guest_cpu_has_hyperv(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu) { struct kvm_hv *hv = &vcpu->kvm->arch.hyperv; const struct kvm_cpuid_entry2 *entry; /* * The call to kvm_find_cpuid_entry() is a bit much to put on * the fast path of some of the Hyper-V MSRs, so bypass it if * the guest OS ID has already been set. */ if (hv->hv_guest_os_id) return true; entry = kvm_find_cpuid_entry(vcpu, HYPERV_CPUID_INTERFACE, 0x0); return entry && entry->eax == HYPERV_CPUID_INTERFACE_MAGIC; } I wonder if this is overengineering when 'let Xen take precedence' works well enough?