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From: Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@gmail.com>
To: Jun Koi <junkoi2004@gmail.com>
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: -cpu core2duo still has no SSE4 support?
Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2011 12:27:07 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1316078827.3743.12.camel@lappy> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+g7VZ0eLSHcOE1XCJCebW-UxQLqhwKKnSTLTow8-H0oSheVbw@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, 2011-09-15 at 17:14 +0800, Jun Koi wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 5:05 PM, Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Thu, 2011-09-15 at 17:04 +0800, Jun Koi wrote:
> >> hi,
> >>
> >> i run kvm with "-cpu core2duo" option, but /proc/cpuinfo only shows
> >> SSE and SSE2.
> >> my host is Core i7, so i suppose that i should have SSE4 with this
> >> option, but it seems not?
> >>
> >> is there any way to get SSE4?
> >
> > How about just running it with '-cpu host'?
> 
> hah, that works, thanks!
> 
> but then there are 2 problems:
> 
> - "-cpu host" should be exposed in the doc. "kvm -cpu ?" reports no
> such option, so i missed it.
> - "-cpu core2duo" should enable SSE4, but it doesnt. a bug?

SSE4 doesn't come built in with all core2duos. See
http://download.intel.com/design/mobile/datashts/31674505.pdf for
example.

-- 

Sasha.


      parent reply	other threads:[~2011-09-15  9:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-09-15  9:04 -cpu core2duo still has no SSE4 support? Jun Koi
2011-09-15  9:05 ` Sasha Levin
2011-09-15  9:14   ` Jun Koi
2011-09-15  9:19     ` Dor Laor
2011-09-15  9:27     ` Sasha Levin [this message]

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