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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] target-i386: add a list of enforceable CPU
 models to the help output
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To: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Cc: pbonzini@redhat.com, rth@twiddle.net, afaerber@suse.de, ehabkost@redhat.com

Am 24.08.2015 um 17:46 schrieb Eric Blake:
> On 08/24/2015 03:17 AM, Peter Lieven wrote:
>> this patch adds a probe that lists all enforceable and migrateable
>> CPU models to the -cpu help output. The idea is to know a priory
>> which CPU modules can be exposed to the user without loosing any
>> feature flags.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Peter Lieven <pl@kamp.de>
>> ---
>>  target-i386/cpu.c | 49 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>  1 file changed, 49 insertions(+)
> Is this same sort of listing available through QMP? Parsing '-cpu help'
> output is undesirable from libvirt point of view.
>

A good point. But is there a QMP command to list available CPU types?
In this case it should be easy to extend.

But, I wonder how to issue a QMP command before the vserver is actually
running? Is there a common way to do it?

Peter