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From: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
To: Riccardo Veraldi <Riccardo.Veraldi@cnaf.infn.it>
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: kvm and cpu type
Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2009 14:43:06 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <497877EA.8050305@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4978719F.1000007@cnaf.infn.it>

Riccardo Veraldi wrote:
> Hello Iam using kvm83 on CentOS5.2
>
> my system has 2x dual Core intel CPU
>
> Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU            5110  @ 1.60GHz
>
> asdetected by Centos.
>
> If I start kvm-qemu with no CPU option everythign works and hte guest
> machine detects cpu as
>
> QEMU Virtual CPU version 0.9.1
>
>
> iv I run qemu-kvm -cpu core2duo
>
> the guest hangs at boot time when it detects the CPU.
>
> I do not know how to fix it.
>
> I also do not know if using -cpu swtch can improve performances.

Yes, -cpu core*duo is broken in kvm < 84. Please use the default.
There's usually no real benefit for anyone to use a specific cpu type,
unless you know that you need it.

Alex

  reply	other threads:[~2009-01-22 13:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-01-22 13:16 kvm and cpu type Riccardo Veraldi
2009-01-22 13:43 ` Alexander Graf [this message]
2009-01-22 16:51 ` Amit Shah

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