Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/3] qemu-kvm: Invert svm-flag setting logic

[Roedel, Joerg]

On Tue, Sep 07, 2010 at 09:51:33AM -0400, Avi Kivity wrote:
>   On 09/07/2010 03:23 PM, Alexander Graf wrote:
> >
> > I think we should get rid of kvm_nested and -enable-nesting. Instead, we 
> > should enable the SVM bit in the "host" and "qemu64" cpu types, but not in 
> > "kvm64". This way users are safe to not use nested svm, but can choose to 
> > do so if they like.
> >
> > Also, it should be possible to do something like -cpu kvm64,flags=+svm. 
> > Without having to mess with -enable-nesting.
> 
> I agree, -enable-nesting is redundant with -cpu ,+svm.

This patchset makes -enable-nesting pratically a synonym for -cpu ,+svm.
So we can safely remove -enable-nesting in the future.

        Joerg

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