Re: [Qemu-devel] [libvirt] Modern CPU models cannot be used with libvirt

[Anthony Liguori]

On 03/11/2012 10:12 AM, Gleb Natapov wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 09:16:49AM -0500, Anthony Liguori wrote:
> > > If libvirt assumes anything about what kvm actually supports it is
> > > working only by sheer luck.
> >
> > Well the simple answer for libvirt is don't use -nodefconfig and
> > then it can reuse the CPU definitions (including any that the user
> > adds).
> CPU models should be usable even with -nodefconfig. CPU model is more
> like device. By -cpu Nehalem I am saying I want Nehalem device in my
> machine.

Let's say we moved CPU definitions to /usr/share/qemu/cpu-models.xml.

Obviously, we'd want a command line option to be able to change that location so 
we'd introduce -cpu-models PATH.

But we want all of our command line options to be settable by the global 
configuration file so we would have a cpu-model=PATH to the configuration file.

But why hard code a path when we can just set the default path in the 
configuration file so let's avoid hard coding and just put 
cpu-models=/usr/share/qemu/cpu-models.xml in the default configuration file.

But now when libvirt uses -nodefconfig, those models go away.  -nodefconfig 
means start QEMU in the most minimal state possible.  You get what you pay for 
if you use it.

We'll have the same problem with machine configuration files.  At some point in 
time, -nodefconfig will make machine models disappear.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori