Thursday, January 29, 2009

20090129 - CPUID differences

Interestingly, found that VMware Workstation 6.0 masks the CPUID and stepping differently from the native processor, but VMware WS6.5 corrects this.

eg:

Native:

VMware workstation 6.0:
VMware workstation 6.5:
Compare this with VirtualBox 2.1.0:

VirtualBox: