Re: [Qemu-devel] CPUID feature bits not saved with migration

[Jamie Lokier]

Dor Laor wrote:
> On 07/15/2009 06:12 PM, Jamie Lokier wrote:
> >Anthony Liguori wrote:
> >>It's unclear what to do about -cpu host.  If we did migrate cpuid
> >>values, then -cpu would effectively be ignored after an incoming 
> >>migration.
> 
> Actually, it might be better to build all of the guest configurations 
> (devices, cpu, etc) from the migration stream, without stating them in 
> the destination command line.
> 
> The destination command line should only contain host configuration.
> It will bypass any type of conflict between the src/dst pairs.

I agree, but this will be a lot simpler and more satisfying once
there's a machine configuration file which can be dumped from qemu and
reloaded into it, with host configuration from the command line merged
into the configuration file at load time.

-- Jamie