Anthony Liguori wrote: > On Wed, 2007-09-05 at 20:45 +0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> It's a pity not to use a host CPU feature if it is available. This patch >> exposes host CPU features to guests. It allows fine-tuning the presented >> features from the command-line. >> >> The code could use some serious clean ups, but I think it is interesting >> enough right now. I'd be happy to hear your opinion and suggestions. >> The diff are done against qemu cvs. I tried it with kvm, but I thinkg it >> should be useful also for kqemu. >> > > I like this idea but I have some suggestions about the general approach. > I think instead of defining another machine type, it would be better to > just have a command line option like -cpuid that took a comma separate > string of features with "all" meaning all features that the host has. > >
I think qemu-cvs has a -cpu option for non-x86 which could be used for this. Agree machine types are the wrong approach. > I also think it would be nicer to use cpuid() directly instead of > attempting to parse /proc/cpuinfo. > Yes. -- Any sufficiently difficult bug is indistinguishable from a feature. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ kvm-devel mailing list kvm-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/kvm-devel
