Host CPID, Geast CPUID and UserCPUID / what are they?
- by amir.csco
i found out that there are some IDs associated to the CPUIDs in vmx file of each virtual machine, these IDs are;
hostCPUID.{Num}
hostCPUID.80000001
guestCPUID.{Num}
guestCPUID.80000001
userCPUID.{Num}
userCPUID.80000001
i had some examination and search and i found out that guestCPUID and userCPUID are the same but hostCPUID always is different, Also i realized that these IDs are 32 hexadecimal characters that contains EDX, EAX, ECX and EDX
i just want to know why hostCPUID is different from two other IDs??
and what is the different between these format of IDs and another format that explain in VMware documents ( cpuid.{Num}.edx or cpuid.{Num}.eax ) that written in binary codes not hexadecimal??
also i need to know why there are no CPUIDs in vmx file of some virtual appliance that often are available in OVF/OVA format and we can just deploy it??
Best Regards,