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

[Dor Laor]

On 01/07/2010 02:00 PM, Avi Kivity wrote:
> On 01/07/2010 01:44 PM, Dor Laor wrote:
> > > So if you had a 2.6.18 kernel and a 2.6.33 kernel, it may be necessary
> > > to say:
> > >
> > > (2.6.33) qemu -cpu Nehalem,-syscall
> > > (2.6.18) qemu -cpu Nehalem
> >
> >
> > Or let qemu do it automatically for you.
>
> qemu on 2.6.33 doesn't know that you're running qemu on 2.6.18 on
> another node.

We can live with it, either have qemu realize the kernel version out of 
another existing feature or query uname.

Alternatively, the matching libvirt package can be the one adding or 
removing it in the right distribution.