Re: Live Migration of 32-bit Linux guest broken since 2.6.35-rc2

Avi Kivity
2010-06-08T13:40:35Z

On 06/08/2010 04:38 PM, Peter Lieven wrote:
> Avi Kivity wrote:
>> On 06/08/2010 04:28 PM, Peter Lieven wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> i will retry the case later today and send info register output.
>>>>> what is the recommended value for nx (and why)?
>>>>
>>>> Enabled (so you get no-execute memory protection).
>>>
>>> do you have a guideline which flags should be identical to ensure
>>> proper live migration?
>>> i would like to do an automatic compare before life migration to
>>> avoid crashes.
>>
>> All of them [1]. If you have an asymmetric machine, you can disable
>> those flags with the -cpu switch.
>>
>> Note the default qemu cpu disables many flags, so if one machine has
>> sse4.2 and the other doesn't, migration will still work without
>> disabling anything.
> which cpu model do you suggest for 4 core xeon cpus? -cpu host ?

-cpu host is good if you have identical machines and don't plan to add
new ones.

> how important is the match of the virtualization extensions?

The virtualization extensions on Intel aren't exposed to the guest, so
they don't need to match.

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