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From: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
To: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@amd.com>
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH] introduce kvm64 CPU
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2009 18:41:49 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A8EC03D.4000202@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1250804057-29681-1-git-send-email-andre.przywara@amd.com>

On 08/21/2009 12:34 AM, Andre Przywara wrote:
> In addition to the TCG based qemu64 type let's introduce a kvm64 CPU type,
> which is the least common denominator of all KVM-capable x86-CPUs
> (based on Intel Pentium 4 Prescott). It can be used as a base type
> for migration.
>    

Typically users will want more specialized greatest common denomiator 
cpu types; if a site has standardized on recent hardware they will want 
the features of that hardware exposed.

I think this is best left to management software, which has more 
information about the migration pool.

-- 
I have a truly marvellous patch that fixes the bug which this
signature is too narrow to contain.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-08-21 15:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-08-20 21:34 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] introduce kvm64 CPU Andre Przywara
2009-08-21 13:33 ` [Qemu-devel] " Jamie Lokier
2009-08-21 14:23   ` Andre Przywara
2009-08-22  1:45     ` Jamie Lokier
2009-08-21 15:41 ` Avi Kivity [this message]
2009-08-21 16:01   ` Glauber Costa
2009-08-21 21:53     ` Andre Przywara
2009-08-23  9:03       ` Avi Kivity
2009-08-23 13:20       ` Amit Shah
2009-08-21 21:59   ` Andre Przywara
2009-08-23  9:05     ` Avi Kivity
2009-08-23 12:47       ` Jamie Lokier
2009-08-22  1:03   ` Jamie Lokier

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