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Chap 'fixes' Microsoft's Windows 7 and 8 update block on new CPUs

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Do VMs really solve this issue?

I was always led to believe that a host and a guest (VM) "saw" the same CPU. So, for example, if the host was Linux running on a Ryzen, then any guest VM would also see a Ryzen. Is this not the case?

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