From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LRpxh-00077l-To for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 27 Jan 2009 10:34:49 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LRpxg-00077C-Ls for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 27 Jan 2009 10:34:49 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=37148 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LRpxg-000776-EM for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 27 Jan 2009 10:34:48 -0500 Received: from ecfrec.frec.bull.fr ([129.183.4.8]:47747) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LRpxg-0000pI-2h for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 27 Jan 2009 10:34:48 -0500 Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/2] Add phenom CPU descriptor From: Laurent Vivier In-Reply-To: <497F1C1A.40700@codemonkey.ws> References: <1233059726-8566-1-git-send-email-agraf@suse.de> <1233059726-8566-2-git-send-email-agraf@suse.de> <1233059726-8566-3-git-send-email-agraf@suse.de> <497F1C1A.40700@codemonkey.ws> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2009 16:33:55 +0100 Message-Id: <1233070435.4644.9.camel@frecb07144> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Reply-To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org Le mardi 27 janvier 2009 =C3=A0 08:37 -0600, Anthony Liguori a =C3=A9crit= : > Alexander Graf wrote: > > As part of my ongoing effort to make nested SVM useful, I started wor= king to get > > VMware ESX run inside KVM. > > > > VMware couples itself pretty tightly to the CPUID, so it's a good ide= a to emulate > > a machine that officially supports SVM and should thus exploit the po= wers of > > nested virtualization. > > > > This patch adds a Phenom CPU identifier, that resembles a real-world = phenom > > CPU as closely as possible. > > =20 >=20 > I didn't apply this last time because I dislike the idea of adding=20 > oodles of CPU definitions for x86. The proper thing to do here is to=20 > have an fdt based description of CPU model. That's not to say I won't=20 > apply this patch, but I don't like the idea of adding more and more of=20 > these things. Did you try "qemu-system-ppc -cpu ?" ;-) ? =20 Regards, Laurent --=20 ------------------ Laurent.Vivier@bull.net ------------------ "Tout ce qui est impossible reste =C3=A0 accomplir" Jules Verne "Things are only impossible until they're not" Jean-Luc Picard