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Re: [Qemu-devel] 'make vm-build-freebsd' &c don't work if KVM isn't enab
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Philippe Mathieu-Daudé |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] 'make vm-build-freebsd' &c don't work if KVM isn't enabled |
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Thu, 2 Aug 2018 16:13:36 -0300 |
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Hi Peter,
On 07/30/2018 10:23 AM, Peter Maydell wrote:
> The tests in tests/vm/ seem to make some attempt to cope with the
> host system not allowing the user to use KVM, but it doesn't quite
> work. The problem is that tests/vm/basevm.py always uses "-cpu host"
> in the QEMU options it uses to run the VM, and that only works if
> KVM is enabled. If the user can't run KVM then we correctly avoid
> passing it "-enable-kvm" but then QEMU doesn't run because "-cpu host"
> isn't supported...
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> I guess the right fix here is to use "-cpu max" ?
I think this is the issue I intended to address in this series:
http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2018-07/msg03411.html
"tests/vm: Improvements when KVM is not available"
->
"tests/vm: Use 'host' cpu when KVM is available, else default to 'max'"