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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2] tests/postcopy: Use KVM on ppc64 only if it
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Laurent Vivier |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2] tests/postcopy: Use KVM on ppc64 only if it is KVM-HV |
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Wed, 16 Nov 2016 11:18:08 +0100 |
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On 16/11/2016 11:14, Thomas Huth wrote:
> The ppc64 postcopy test does not work with KVM-PR, and it is also
> causing annoying warning messages when run on a x86 host. So let's
> use KVM here only if we know that we're running with KVM-HV (which
> automatically also means that we're running on a ppc64 host), and
> use TCG otherwise.
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> Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <address@hidden>
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> v2:
> - Check also /dev/kvm to make sure that we're allowed to access KVM
I'm not sure it's a good idea as we will fail silently whereas QEMU
sends an error message. It's common mistake we should be aware of.
Laurent