Re: [Qemu-devel] Qemu / KQemu on 64-bit (x86_64) host systems

[Werner Dittmann <Werner.Dittmann@t-online.de>]

Andrzej,

the guest Linux system reported some AMD CPU type (can't remember
which one) which is not in my system. Now when the guest Linux starts
is correctly reports: CPU 0 AMD X2 4200+ ....

Regards,
Werner

andrzej zaborowski wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On 18/04/07, Werner Dittmann <Werner.Dittmann@t-online.de> wrote:
>> Andrzej,
>>
>> just another remark: after setting the kernel parameter to "notsc"
>> the kernel now detects the CPU correctly. Without this setting the
>> CPU detetion was wrong (displays the wrong CPU type, frequency, etc).
>> Are there any know side-effects if notsc (no time stamp counter) is
>> set?
> 
> I don't know what clocksource is chosen with "notsc", it may be
> forgettably slower one (but not necessarily). What do you mean by
> wrong CPU?
> 
> Apparently this is the same SMP issue I described in
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2007-03/msg00652.html so
> it's not x86_64 related. If you apply the patch from that post, you
> can skip "notsc".
> 
> Regards,
> Andrzej
> 
> 
>