Re: [Qemu-devel] cpuid problem in upstream qemu with kvm

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Wed, Jan 06, 2010 at 11:54:16AM +0200, Avi Kivity wrote:
> On 01/06/2010 11:44 AM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> >
> >This is all a very long way of saying that mgmt apps based on libvirt
> >won't care about model names exposed in /proc/cpuinfo so there's no
> >particular need to have a direct mapping from them to QEMU for libvirt's
> >needs.
> >   
> 
> There is still a need to query qemu, since it will filter out bits that
> kvm.ko or the hardware don't support.

If there was a more verbose version of '-cpu ?' which also gave the CPUID
masks associated with each supported CPU model, that would be useful info
avoiding need for libvirt to hardcode the mapping to QEMU

Daniel
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