Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] hw/arm/virt: Reject gic-version=host for non-KVM

["Richard W.M. Jones" <rjones@redhat.com>]

On Thu, May 26, 2016 at 10:31:25AM -0400, Cole Robinson wrote:
> If you try to gic-version=host with TCG on a KVM aarch64 host,
> qemu segfaults, since host requires KVM APIs.
> 
> Explicitly reject gic-version=host if KVM is not enabled
> 
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1339977
> Signed-off-by: Cole Robinson <crobinso@redhat.com>
> ---
>  hw/arm/virt.c | 6 +++++-
>  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/hw/arm/virt.c b/hw/arm/virt.c
> index e77ed88..1e82597 100644
> --- a/hw/arm/virt.c
> +++ b/hw/arm/virt.c
> @@ -1122,10 +1122,14 @@ static void machvirt_init(MachineState *machine)
>       * KVM is not available yet
>       */
>      if (!gic_version) {
> +        if (!kvm_enabled()) {
> +            error_report("gic-version=host requires KVM");
> +            exit(1);
> +        }

The problem with this is if I'm using TCG fallback mode, how
can I specify the right gic-version?  ie:

  -M virt,gic-version=host,accel=kvm:tcg

Only qemu knows if KVM is going to be enabled.

The same problem happens with '-cpu host' BTW.  I really want a "make
it work" option, as I've said on several previous occasions on this
list eg:
https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2014-08/msg04173.html

Rich.

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