Re: [PATCH] KVM: X86: Allow userspace to define the microcode version

Wanpeng Li
2018-04-24T02:56:52Z

2018-02-26 20:41 GMT+08:00 Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>:
> On 26/02/2018 13:22, Borislav Petkov wrote:
>> On Mon, Feb 26, 2018 at 01:18:07PM +0100, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
>>>> In this context, "host-initiated" write means written by KVM userspace
>>>> with ioctl(KVM_SET_MSR). It generally happens only on VM startup, reset
>>>> or live migration.
>>>
>>> To be clear, the target of the write is still the vCPU's emulated MSR.
>>
>> So how am I to imagine this as a user:
>>
>> qemu-system-x86_64 --microcode-revision=0xdeadbeef...
>
> More like "-cpu foo,ucode_rev=0xdeadbeef". But in practice what would
> happen is one of the following:
>
> 1) "-cpu host" sets ucode_rev to the same value of the host, everyone

I found vmware on my macbook will also do this. :)

Regards,
Wanpeng Li