Re: [libvirt] [PATCH] docs: formatdomain: explain host-model/host-passthrough requirements

2019-08-09 Thread Jiri Denemark
On Fri, Aug 02, 2019 at 14:54:15 +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote: > host-passthrough documentation menions that the source and destination > hosts are not identical in both hardware and configuration. Configuration > actually includes microcode version and QEMU version, but this is not > clear so make

Re: [libvirt] [PATCH] docs: formatdomain: explain host-model/host-passthrough requirements

2019-08-08 Thread Dr. David Alan Gilbert
* Paolo Bonzini (pbonz...@redhat.com) wrote: > Unlike host-model, host-passthrough does not do any check, it just passes > "-cpu host" blindly. Therefore, lack of flags can and will result in > crashes---SIGSEGV if it happens in userspace, but worse if for example the > destination doesn't have an

Re: [libvirt] [PATCH] docs: formatdomain: explain host-model/host-passthrough requirements

2019-08-08 Thread Paolo Bonzini
Unlike host-model, host-passthrough does not do any check, it just passes "-cpu host" blindly. Therefore, lack of flags can and will result in crashes---SIGSEGV if it happens in userspace, but worse if for example the destination doesn't have an MSR that should be there according to the kernel. Pa

Re: [libvirt] [PATCH] docs: formatdomain: explain host-model/host-passthrough requirements

2019-08-08 Thread Jonathon Jongsma
On Fri, 2019-08-02 at 14:54 +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote: > host-passthrough documentation menions that the source and Small nit: menions -> mentions > destination > hosts are not identical in both hardware and > configuration. Configuration > actually includes microcode version and QEMU version,

Re: [libvirt] [PATCH] docs: formatdomain: explain host-model/host-passthrough requirements

2019-08-06 Thread Dr. David Alan Gilbert
* Paolo Bonzini (pbonz...@redhat.com) wrote: > host-passthrough documentation menions that the source and destination > hosts are not identical in both hardware and configuration. Configuration > actually includes microcode version and QEMU version, but this is not > clear so make it explicit > >

[libvirt] [PATCH] docs: formatdomain: explain host-model/host-passthrough requirements

2019-08-02 Thread Paolo Bonzini
host-passthrough documentation menions that the source and destination hosts are not identical in both hardware and configuration. Configuration actually includes microcode version and QEMU version, but this is not clear so make it explicit Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini --- docs/formatdomain.htm