From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Paul Brook Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH 1/2] allow hypervisor CPUID bit to be overriden Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2009 12:43:38 +0100 Message-ID: <200906231243.39874.paul@codesourcery.com> References: <1245707244-743-1-git-send-email-andre.przywara@amd.com> <200906231231.15206.paul@codesourcery.com> <4A40BE07.5080906@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Andre Przywara , aliguori@us.ibm.com, kvm@vger.kernel.org To: Avi Kivity Return-path: Received: from mail.codesourcery.com ([65.74.133.4]:48434 "EHLO mail.codesourcery.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1759361AbZFWLni (ORCPT ); Tue, 23 Jun 2009 07:43:38 -0400 In-Reply-To: <4A40BE07.5080906@redhat.com> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: > I agree it's pointless, but it is a Microsoft requirement for passing > their SVVP tests. Enabling it by default makes life a little easier for > users who wish to validate their hypervisor and has no drawbacks. I wasn't arguing against setting it by default (for QEMU CPU types), just against enabling it unconditionally. Paul