PROCESSOR FEATURE ID RESPONSE FOR VIRTUALIZATION

The disclosed technology is generally directed to virtualization technology. The disclosed technology includes providing processor feature ID information requested by, or from, a virtual machine (VM), virtualized application, Virtualization Based Security (VBS) user mode process, VBS kernel mode process, or other guest partition, by a processor. Such information may be provided based on information provided a priori to the processor, for example, by a supervisory partition, such as a hypervisor. The disclosed technology also includes a supervisory partition, for example, that provides such information to the processor, and includes guest partitions that receive such information.