[Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH] introduce kvm64 CPU

[Avi Kivity]

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.

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