Re: [libvirt] [PATCH 2/5] Introduce SMM feature

2016-08-04 Thread Pavel Hrdina
On Wed, Jul 27, 2016 at 10:43:49AM +0200, Michal Privoznik wrote: > Since its release of 2.4.0 qemu is able to enable System > Management Module in the firmware, or disable it. We should > expose this capability in the XML. Unfortunately, there's no good > way to determine whether the binary we

Re: [libvirt] [PATCH 2/5] Introduce SMM feature

2016-08-02 Thread Laszlo Ersek
On 08/02/16 10:58, Michal Privoznik wrote: > On 01.08.2016 21:10, Laszlo Ersek wrote: >> On 08/01/16 19:05, Gerd Hoffmann wrote: >>> Hi, >>> If it does, then the host kernel should be 4.4 or later. (If we want to capture version numbers, then for each minor release, the latest patch

Re: [libvirt] [PATCH 2/5] Introduce SMM feature

2016-08-02 Thread Michal Privoznik
On 01.08.2016 21:10, Laszlo Ersek wrote: > On 08/01/16 19:05, Gerd Hoffmann wrote: >> Hi, >> >>> If it does, then the host kernel should be 4.4 or later. (If we want to >>> capture version numbers, then for each minor release, the latest patch >>> level should be required: 4.4.16, 4.5.7, 4.6.5,

Re: [libvirt] [PATCH 2/5] Introduce SMM feature

2016-08-01 Thread Laszlo Ersek
On 08/01/16 19:05, Gerd Hoffmann wrote: > Hi, > >> If it does, then the host kernel should be 4.4 or later. (If we want to >> capture version numbers, then for each minor release, the latest patch >> level should be required: 4.4.16, 4.5.7, 4.6.5, 4.7.0, because there >> have been a number of

Re: [libvirt] [PATCH 2/5] Introduce SMM feature

2016-08-01 Thread Gerd Hoffmann
Hi, > If it does, then the host kernel should be 4.4 or later. (If we want to > capture version numbers, then for each minor release, the latest patch > level should be required: 4.4.16, 4.5.7, 4.6.5, 4.7.0, because there > have been a number of KVM tweaks and stable backports for SMM support.)

Re: [libvirt] [PATCH 2/5] Introduce SMM feature

2016-08-01 Thread Laszlo Ersek
On 08/01/16 14:28, Gerd Hoffmann wrote: > Hi, > >> ... Gerd's above metadata change is dated 2016-03-21, at which point >> both QEMU v2.4.0 and v2.5.0 had been tagged (on 2015-08-11 and on >> 2015-12-16, respectively). I guess Gerd may have mis-remembered the >> exact QEMU release which

Re: [libvirt] [PATCH 2/5] Introduce SMM feature

2016-08-01 Thread Gerd Hoffmann
Hi, > ... Gerd's above metadata change is dated 2016-03-21, at which point > both QEMU v2.4.0 and v2.5.0 had been tagged (on 2015-08-11 and on > 2015-12-16, respectively). I guess Gerd may have mis-remembered the > exact QEMU release which included SMM support? Either that, or because some of

Re: [libvirt] [PATCH 2/5] Introduce SMM feature

2016-07-27 Thread Laszlo Ersek
Hi Michal, thanks a lot for posting this. One question: On 07/27/16 10:43, Michal Privoznik wrote: > Since its release of 2.4.0 qemu is able to enable System > Management Module in the firmware, or disable it. We should > expose this capability in the XML. Unfortunately, there's no good > way to

[libvirt] [PATCH 2/5] Introduce SMM feature

2016-07-27 Thread Michal Privoznik
Since its release of 2.4.0 qemu is able to enable System Management Module in the firmware, or disable it. We should expose this capability in the XML. Unfortunately, there's no good way to determine whether the binary we are talking to supports it. I mean, if qemu's run with real machine type,