Re: [Qemu-devel] CPU model versioning separate from machine type versioning ?

[Eduardo Habkost]

On Fri, Jun 29, 2018 at 11:19:17AM +0100, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 29, 2018 at 09:53:53AM +0100, Dr. David Alan Gilbert wrote:
[...]
> > We're going to have to say something like:
> >   'For the new XYZ vulnerability make sure you're using
> >   Haswell-3.2 or later, SkyLake-2.6 or later, Westmere-4.8 or later
> >   .....'
> > 
> > which all gets a bit confusing.
> 
> The kernel has a /sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities dir
> that lists status of various flaws.
> 
> I have been thinking about whether libvirt should create a
> 'virt-guest-validate' command that looks at guest XML and
> reports whether any of the config settings are vulnerable
> or otherwise diverging from best practice in some way.
> 
> QEMU itself would perhaps have a 'query-vulnerabilities'
> monitor command to report whether the current config is
> satisfactory or not.

Makes sense to me.  I wanted to make QEMU emit warnings on
obviously insecure configurations.  Adding a
query-vulnerabilities command would be the QMP counterpart of
that.

-- 
Eduardo