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Re: [Qemu-devel] [qemu-devel][libvirt] Default machine type setting for
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Peter Maydell |
Subject: |
Re: [Qemu-devel] [qemu-devel][libvirt] Default machine type setting for ppc64 |
Date: |
Tue, 21 May 2013 11:22:37 +0100 |
On 21 May 2013 11:01, Daniel P. Berrange <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 07:55:27PM +1000, Paul Mackerras wrote:
>> I think libvirt needs some more sensible way to ask qemu what its
>> capabilities are. Currently it has no way to ask qemu "what machines
>> can you emulate with kvm acceleration?" If the user has asked for a
>> KVM domain then the default machine should be one that can be provided
>> by KVM. At present it isn't, on PowerPC.
>
> If QEMU can provide more intelligent info in this respect, then
> libvirt can use it.
I think this would make sense. Currently for ARM to get KVM
acceleration you have to use a specific guest CPU (A15), and
so you have to use a machine which supports that CPU (currently
just vexpress-a15). But we don't expose any way for libvirt to
tell that it needs an A15 or which machine models support which
CPUs. In fact we don't even give a sensible error message if
you try to use a wrong CPU, we'll just blithely push ahead
and behave very weirdly.
thanks
-- PMM
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [libvirt] Default machine type setting for ppc64, (continued)
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [libvirt] Default machine type setting for ppc64, Li Zhang, 2013/05/21
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [qemu-devel][libvirt] Default machine type setting for ppc64, Peter Maydell, 2013/05/21
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [qemu-devel][libvirt] Default machine type setting for ppc64, Daniel P. Berrange, 2013/05/21
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [qemu-devel][libvirt] Default machine type setting for ppc64, Peter Maydell, 2013/05/21
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [qemu-devel][libvirt] Default machine type setting for ppc64, Li Zhang, 2013/05/21
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [qemu-devel][libvirt] Default machine type setting for ppc64, Peter Maydell, 2013/05/21
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [qemu-devel][libvirt] Default machine type setting for ppc64, Daniel P. Berrange, 2013/05/21
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [qemu-devel][libvirt] Default machine type setting for ppc64, Li Zhang, 2013/05/21
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [qemu-devel][libvirt] Default machine type setting for ppc64, Paul Mackerras, 2013/05/21
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [qemu-devel][libvirt] Default machine type setting for ppc64, Daniel P. Berrange, 2013/05/21
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [qemu-devel][libvirt] Default machine type setting for ppc64,
Peter Maydell <=
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [qemu-devel][libvirt] Default machine type setting for ppc64, Anthony Liguori, 2013/05/21
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [qemu-devel][libvirt] Default machine type setting for ppc64, Peter Maydell, 2013/05/21
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [qemu-devel][libvirt] Default machine type setting for ppc64, Christian Borntraeger, 2013/05/21
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [qemu-devel][libvirt] Default machine type setting for ppc64, Anthony Liguori, 2013/05/21
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [libvirt] [qemu-devel] Default machine type setting for ppc64, Eric Blake, 2013/05/21
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [libvirt] [qemu-devel] Default machine type setting for ppc64, Daniel P. Berrange, 2013/05/21
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [libvirt] [qemu-devel] Default machine type setting for ppc64, Anthony Liguori, 2013/05/21
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [libvirt] [qemu-devel] Default machine type setting for ppc64, Li Zhang, 2013/05/22
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [qemu-devel][libvirt] Default machine type setting for ppc64, Li Zhang, 2013/05/21
Re: [Qemu-devel] [qemu-devel][libvirt] Default machine type setting for ppc64, Li Zhang, 2013/05/21