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Hypervisor Features

Hypervisor Virtual Interrupt Control

Virtual Interrupts

Virtual Interrupt Types

Trigger Types

Virtual Interrupts

The hypervisor provides interfaces that allow a partition to send virtual interrupts to specified virtual processors. This mechanism is useful for emulating an IOAPIC or a legacy 8259 programmable interrupt controller (PIC).

The following sections describe virtual interrupts:

Virtual Interrupt Types

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