Re: [Qemu-devel] cpuid problem in upstream qemu with kvm

[Michael S. Tsirkin]

On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 06:45:22AM -0700, David S. Ahern wrote:
> 
> On 12/21/2009 05:05 AM, Avi Kivity wrote:
> > On 12/21/2009 01:45 PM, Alexander Graf wrote:
> >>
> >> Well, we have two groups:
> >>
> >> 1) Casual user w/o management app
> >> 2) Enterprise user w/ management app
> >>
> >> So I clearly belong to the first group.
> >>    
> > 
> > 3) Developer/power user who knows what he's about.
> > 
> > You could simply add -cpu qemu64 for those guests that care about it.
> > 
> 
> 4) embedded virtualization where the use of a management app provides
> little to no added benefit and everything has to be
> "automated" (ie., no user).
> 
> My point is there are other use cases besides data center deployments
> (aka enterprise) and workstation (casual/power user). There are use
> cases where virtualization is just yet another tool to achieve a product.
> 
> David

Yes, but unless someone runs qemu directly, default value for any flag
does not matter much.

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