Re: [Qemu-devel] 'make vm-build-freebsd' &c don't work if KVM isn't enabled

[Peter Maydell]

On 2 August 2018 at 20:13, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <address@hidden> wrote:
> 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...
>>
>> 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'"

Just using "max" seems more straightforward, since the point
is that it works everywhere.

I thought I'd sent my tests/vm series out earlier this week,
but I must have managed to only do the dry-run or something --
I'll send them tomorrow.

thanks
-- PMM