Re: [libvirt] [PATCH 10/18] cpu: CPU model names have to match on ppc64

2015-08-06 Thread Jiri Denemark
On Tue, Aug 04, 2015 at 11:38:01 +0200, Andrea Bolognani wrote: Limitations of the POWER architecture mean that you can't run eg. a POWER7 guest on a POWER8 host when using KVM. This applies to all guests, not just those using VIR_CPU_MATCH_STRICT in the CPU definition; in fact, exact and

[libvirt] [PATCH 10/18] cpu: CPU model names have to match on ppc64

2015-08-04 Thread Andrea Bolognani
Limitations of the POWER architecture mean that you can't run eg. a POWER7 guest on a POWER8 host when using KVM. This applies to all guests, not just those using VIR_CPU_MATCH_STRICT in the CPU definition; in fact, exact and strict CPU matching are basically the same on ppc64. This means, of