[Qemu-devel] Re: [RFC] allow multi-core guests: introduce cores= option to -cpu

[Alexander Graf]

On 05.07.2009, at 17:11, Avi Kivity wrote:

> On 07/05/2009 06:04 PM, Gleb Natapov wrote:
> > core2duo does not imply 2 cores. OSes use cpuid to discover this
> > information.
>
> It does.  "Core 2" is the name of the core.  "Core 2 Duo" is a 2- 
> core package containing (a pair) this core.  "Core 2 Solo" is a  
> single-core package containing the core.

Well, then let's better make it -cpu core2, no?
The only problem I see is how to generate the description string.  
Model number and the likes should be identical to a Core2Solo, right?

Alex