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

[Avi Kivity]

On 03/25/2012 03:12 PM, Anthony Liguori wrote:
>>> qemu -M pc
>>>
>>> Would effectively be short hand for -readconfig
>>> /usr/share/qemu/machines/pc.cfg
>>
>> In that case
>>
>>   qemu -cpu westmere
>>
>> is shorthand for -readconfig /usr/share/qemu/cpus/westmere.cfg.
>
>
> This is not a bad suggestion, although it would make -cpu ? a bit
> awkward.  Do you see an advantage to this over having
> /usr/share/qemu/target-x86_64-cpus.cfg that's read early on?

Nope.  As long as qemu -nodefconfig -cpu westmere works, I'm happy.

The reasoning is, loading target-x86_64-cpus.cfg does not alter the
current instance's configuration, so reading it doesn't violate
-nodefconfig.

>>> files be read by default or just treated as additional configuration
>>> files.
>>
>> If they're read as soon as they're referenced, what's the difference?
> I think the thread has reduced to: should /usr/share configuration
>
> I suspect libvirt would not be happy with reading configuration files
> on demand..

Why not?

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