Hypervisor Virtual Processor Management

Each partition can have zero or more virtual processors. The state of a virtual processor can be programmatically accessed or modified by another sufficiently privileged partition by using the hypercall functions in the Virtual Processor Functions section. These functions can be used in conjunction with intercepts to virtualize the processor.

The following sections describe the hypervisor's implementation of virtual-processor management:

Virtual Processor Indices

Virtual Processor Registers

Virtual Processor States

Virtual Processor Idle Sleep States

Virtual Boot Processor

APIC IDs

Virtual Processor Data Types

Virtual Processor Register Formats

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