On Wed, Jan 06, 2010 at 11:54:16AM +0200, Avi Kivity wrote: > On 01/06/2010 11:44 AM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > > > >This is all a very long way of saying that mgmt apps based on libvirt > >won't care about model names exposed in /proc/cpuinfo so there's no > >particular need to have a direct mapping from them to QEMU for libvirt's > >needs. > > > > There is still a need to query qemu, since it will filter out bits that > kvm.ko or the hardware don't support.
If there was a more verbose version of '-cpu ?' which also gave the CPUID masks associated with each supported CPU model, that would be useful info avoiding need for libvirt to hardcode the mapping to QEMU Daniel -- |: Red Hat, Engineering, London -o- http://people.redhat.com/berrange/ :| |: http://libvirt.org -o- http://virt-manager.org -o- http://ovirt.org :| |: http://autobuild.org -o- http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ :| |: GnuPG: 7D3B9505 -o- F3C9 553F A1DA 4AC2 5648 23C1 B3DF F742 7D3B 9505 :|
