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To: Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>
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Jamie Lokier wrote:

> Do you mean that more powerful management tools to support safe
> migration will maintain _their own_ processor model tables, and
> perform their calculations using their own tables instead of querying
> qemu, and therefore not have any need of qemu's built in table?

I would expect so.  IIRC that is what the libvirt folks have
in mind for example.  But we're also trying to simplify the use
case of the lonesome user at one with the qemu CLI.

-john

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