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From: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
Subject: Re: [RFC 0/2] GET_EMULATED_CPUID support with "allow-emulation" option
Date: Thu, 05 Jun 2014 18:54:14 +0200
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On 05.06.14 18:52, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> Il 05/06/2014 18:45, Alexander Graf ha scritto:
>>>>
>>>
>>> Only if you were using "-cpu somethingThatHasAVX", though, no?
>>
>> Yes. The same argument goes the other way around. I want to use AVX
>> emulation, do "allow-emulation" and suddenly I get MONITOR/MWAIT 
>> emulation.
>
> What about:
>
> - letting "-cpu foo,+emulatedfeature" just work
>
> - adding emulated=yes that blindly enables all emulated features
>
> - making "-cpu ...,check" prints a warning for emulated features 
> unless emulated=yes

How about we remove the emulated=yes from this list? Then I'm happy :).


Alex