Re: [libvirt] [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 4/7] qemu: Add monitor APIs to fetch CPUID data from QEMU

2013-07-26 Thread Eduardo Habkost
On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 02:31:24PM +0200, Andreas Färber wrote: > Am 25.07.2013 20:02, schrieb Eduardo Habkost: > > On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 04:09:18PM +0200, Andreas Färber wrote: > >> Am 25.07.2013 16:00, schrieb Eduardo Habkost: > >>> libvirt > >>> needs a way to find out how exactly "-machine fo

Re: [libvirt] [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 4/7] qemu: Add monitor APIs to fetch CPUID data from QEMU

2013-07-26 Thread Andreas Färber
Am 25.07.2013 20:02, schrieb Eduardo Habkost: > On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 04:09:18PM +0200, Andreas Färber wrote: >> Am 25.07.2013 16:00, schrieb Eduardo Habkost: >>> libvirt >>> needs a way to find out how exactly "-machine foo-1.0 -cpu bar" looks >>> different from "-machine foo-1.1 -cpu bar", >> >

Re: [libvirt] [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 4/7] qemu: Add monitor APIs to fetch CPUID data from QEMU

2013-07-25 Thread Eduardo Habkost
On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 04:09:18PM +0200, Andreas Färber wrote: > Am 25.07.2013 16:00, schrieb Eduardo Habkost: > > libvirt > > needs a way to find out how exactly "-machine foo-1.0 -cpu bar" looks > > different from "-machine foo-1.1 -cpu bar", > > Why? (What's the actual use case?) libvirt API

Re: [libvirt] [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 4/7] qemu: Add monitor APIs to fetch CPUID data from QEMU

2013-07-25 Thread Daniel P. Berrange
On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 04:09:18PM +0200, Andreas Färber wrote: > Am 25.07.2013 16:00, schrieb Eduardo Habkost: > > libvirt > > needs a way to find out how exactly "-machine foo-1.0 -cpu bar" looks > > different from "-machine foo-1.1 -cpu bar", > > Why? (What's the actual use case?) It already t

Re: [libvirt] [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 4/7] qemu: Add monitor APIs to fetch CPUID data from QEMU

2013-07-25 Thread Andreas Färber
Am 25.07.2013 16:00, schrieb Eduardo Habkost: > libvirt > needs a way to find out how exactly "-machine foo-1.0 -cpu bar" looks > different from "-machine foo-1.1 -cpu bar", Why? (What's the actual use case?) Andreas -- SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GF: Jeff H

Re: [libvirt] [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 4/7] qemu: Add monitor APIs to fetch CPUID data from QEMU

2013-07-25 Thread Eduardo Habkost
On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 11:14:16AM +0200, Andreas Färber wrote: > Am 24.07.2013 20:25, schrieb Eduardo Habkost: > > In addition to the "-cpu host" KVM initialization problem, this is an > > additional problem with the current interfaces provided by QEMU: > > > > 1) libvirt needs to query data that

Re: [libvirt] [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 4/7] qemu: Add monitor APIs to fetch CPUID data from QEMU

2013-07-25 Thread Andreas Färber
Am 24.07.2013 20:25, schrieb Eduardo Habkost: > In addition to the "-cpu host" KVM initialization problem, this is an > additional problem with the current interfaces provided by QEMU: > > 1) libvirt needs to query data that depend on chosen machine-type and >CPU model > 2) Some machine-type b