On 23/05/2019 23.27, Eduardo Habkost wrote: > On Thu, May 23, 2019 at 07:57:38PM +0100, Dr. David Alan Gilbert wrote: >> * Bernhard M. Wiedemann (bwiedem...@suse.de) wrote: >>> Without this patch, a VM on a Opteron G3 host will have the svm flag, but >>> the kvm-amd module fails to load in there, complaining that it needs >>> cpuid 0x8000000a >>> >>> I have successfully built and tested this for 3+ years in production >>> on Opteron G3 servers. > > Have you reproduced the bug on QEMU 2.8 or newer? The problem > you describe should be fixed by the following commit (from ~2.5 > years ago). > > commit 0c3d7c0051576d220e6da0a8ac08f2d8482e2f0b > target-i386: Enable CPUID[0x8000000A] if SVM is enabled
I was still on qemu-2.6.2 so it is good to know that this might work out of the box with 2.8+ Thanks for the pointer.
