On 01/06/2010 07:54 AM, Avi Kivity wrote:
On 01/06/2010 03:49 PM, Anthony Liguori wrote:
I think that's workable but I think there may be some subtle issues
especially across qemu versions. Can you give an example of what
you would expect the output to be?
-> { command: query-cpu-capabalities }
<- { result: { features: [vm, fpu, lm, sse2, sse3, sssse3,
ssssssse3, sse3.14 ], cache: { ... }, vendor: { .... }, etc. } }
Or something. We'd need similar queries for the number of PCI
slots, for example, so the GUI can tell the user when adding
hardware is no longer an option instead of trying it blindly and
returning an error.
Yeah, the trick with this is that we don't have such a thing as a
bare bones CPU in qemu right now.
So you can't really say -cpu qemu64+vm+fpu+lm....
Because some extra features might sneak in. What I'm getting at is
that we need a way to make the results of this command translate into
a -cpu invocation that works reliably across multiple versions of qemu.
Well, we can freeze qemu64 if we wish. That's still not 100% accurate
since kvm can remove features from qemu64.
-cpu none,+flags,vendor=foo,cache=bar,ad=nauseum?
Yeah, I'm not sure I can think of a better way.
Regards,
Anthony Liguori
