Re: [PATCH 3/6] tests/functional/test_kvm.py: Use -cpu max, not cortex-a72

[Richard Henderson]

On 5/7/26 14:47, Peter Maydell wrote:

The test_kvm test claims to run on any accelerator supporting
nested virtualization, but it specifies the cortex-a72 CPU.
This doesn't exist for KVM-only builds. Use max instead.

This fixes a failure like
   Output: qemu-system-aarch64: unable to find CPU model 'cortex-a72'

Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell 
---
  tests/functional/aarch64/test_kvm.py | 2 +-
  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/tests/functional/aarch64/test_kvm.py 
b/tests/functional/aarch64/test_kvm.py
index 7545f5ed55..fed18aba60 100755
--- a/tests/functional/aarch64/test_kvm.py
+++ b/tests/functional/aarch64/test_kvm.py
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ def _launch_guest(self, kvm_mode="nvhe"):
  kernel_command_line = (self.KERNEL_COMMON_COMMAND_LINE +
 f"console=ttyAMA0 kvm-arm.mode={kvm_mode}")
  
-self.vm.add_args("-cpu", "cortex-a72")

+self.vm.add_args("-cpu", "max")
  self.vm.add_args("-machine", "virt,gic-version=3,virtualization=on",
   '-kernel', kernel_path,
   '-append', kernel_command_line)


Reviewed-by: Richard Henderson 

r~

Re: [PATCH 3/6] tests/functional/test_kvm.py: Use -cpu max, not cortex-a72

[Philippe Mathieu-Daudé]

On 7/5/26 21:47, Peter Maydell wrote:

The test_kvm test claims to run on any accelerator supporting
nested virtualization, but it specifies the cortex-a72 CPU.
This doesn't exist for KVM-only builds. Use max instead.

This fixes a failure like
   Output: qemu-system-aarch64: unable to find CPU model 'cortex-a72'

Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell 
---
  tests/functional/aarch64/test_kvm.py | 2 +-
  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)


Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé 

[PATCH 3/6] tests/functional/test_kvm.py: Use -cpu max, not cortex-a72

[Peter Maydell]

The test_kvm test claims to run on any accelerator supporting
nested virtualization, but it specifies the cortex-a72 CPU.
This doesn't exist for KVM-only builds. Use max instead.

This fixes a failure like
  Output: qemu-system-aarch64: unable to find CPU model 'cortex-a72'

Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell 
---
 tests/functional/aarch64/test_kvm.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/tests/functional/aarch64/test_kvm.py 
b/tests/functional/aarch64/test_kvm.py
index 7545f5ed55..fed18aba60 100755
--- a/tests/functional/aarch64/test_kvm.py
+++ b/tests/functional/aarch64/test_kvm.py
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ def _launch_guest(self, kvm_mode="nvhe"):
 kernel_command_line = (self.KERNEL_COMMON_COMMAND_LINE +
f"console=ttyAMA0 kvm-arm.mode={kvm_mode}")
 
-self.vm.add_args("-cpu", "cortex-a72")
+self.vm.add_args("-cpu", "max")
 self.vm.add_args("-machine", "virt,gic-version=3,virtualization=on",
  '-kernel', kernel_path,
  '-append', kernel_command_line)
-- 
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