Re: [PATCH 14/21] Remove -cpu-vendor-string

Anthony Liguori
2009-04-30T13:10:41Z

Avi Kivity wrote:
> Anthony Liguori wrote:
>> This isn't in upstream QEMU and is of little utility to KVM. It's
>> unlikely
>> to appear in upstream QEMU either.
>>
>
> Since we allow overriding cpuid flags, why not the vendor string?
> It's necessary for cpu passthrough.
>
But we don't allow explicit override of cpuid flags today. We support
choosing CPU models which include vendor id and cpuid flags.

Introducing a host CPU model would be acceptable and would more
accurately achieve cpu passthrough.

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Regards,

Anthony Liguori