From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LRtMV-00032i-JW for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 27 Jan 2009 14:12:39 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LRtMT-00032T-57 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 27 Jan 2009 14:12:39 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=49827 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LRtMS-00032Q-U9 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 27 Jan 2009 14:12:36 -0500 Received: from mail-qy0-f20.google.com ([209.85.221.20]:51397) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LRtMS-0004Hu-Ni for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 27 Jan 2009 14:12:36 -0500 Received: by qyk13 with SMTP id 13so10707306qyk.10 for ; Tue, 27 Jan 2009 11:12:36 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <497F5C93.9080609@codemonkey.ws> Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2009 13:12:19 -0600 From: Anthony Liguori MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/2] Add phenom CPU descriptor 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> <1233070435.4644.9.camel@frecb07144> In-Reply-To: <1233070435.4644.9.camel@frecb07144> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Reply-To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Laurent Vivier Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org Laurent Vivier wrote: > Le mardi 27 janvier 2009 à 08:37 -0600, Anthony Liguori a écrit : > >> Alexander Graf wrote: >> >>> As part of my ongoing effort to make nested SVM useful, I started working to get >>> VMware ESX run inside KVM. >>> >>> VMware couples itself pretty tightly to the CPUID, so it's a good idea to emulate >>> a machine that officially supports SVM and should thus exploit the powers of >>> nested virtualization. >>> >>> This patch adds a Phenom CPU identifier, that resembles a real-world phenom >>> CPU as closely as possible. >>> >>> >> I didn't apply this last time because I dislike the idea of adding >> oodles of CPU definitions for x86. The proper thing to do here is to >> have an fdt based description of CPU model. That's not to say I won't >> apply this patch, but I don't like the idea of adding more and more of >> these things. >> > > Did you try "qemu-system-ppc -cpu ?" ;-) ? > Which is precisely what I'd like to avoid :-) Although this is a bit different. We aren't actually emulating a phenom. We're just taking what we have and calling it a phenom. I suspect there's going to be a desire to call whatever we emulate arbitrary things. Regards, Anthony LIguori > Regards, > Laurent >