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: Sun, 23 Aug 2009 12:05:13 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A910649.5000600@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4A8F18CB.6000200@amd.com>
On 08/22/2009 12:59 AM, Andre Przywara wrote:
>> 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.
> Sure, but this was not the purpose of this patch. Currently KVM guests
> see a CPU type which is TCG dependent, so I just wanted to get rid of
> this. Features of TCG and features of the host processor are totally
> uncorrelated. This new type should be KVM's default, leaving -cpu host
> as the alternative for the non-migration case.
That does make sense. Note we can call it '-cpu kvm' since qemu will
strip away long mode if it is not supported by the cpu or by the kernel.
--
error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-08-23 9:05 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
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 [this message]
2009-08-23 12:47 ` Jamie Lokier
2009-08-22 1:03 ` Jamie Lokier
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