Re: [Qemu-devel] [libvirt] Modern CPU models cannot be used with libvirt

[Anthony Liguori]

On 03/25/2012 09:58 AM, Gleb Natapov wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 25, 2012 at 03:14:56PM +0200, Avi Kivity wrote:
> > On 03/25/2012 03:12 PM, Anthony Liguori wrote:
> > > > > qemu -M pc
> > > > >
> > > > > Would effectively be short hand for -readconfig
> > > > > /usr/share/qemu/machines/pc.cfg
> > > >
> > > > In that case
> > > >
> > > >    qemu -cpu westmere
> > > >
> > > > is shorthand for -readconfig /usr/share/qemu/cpus/westmere.cfg.
> > >
> > >
> > > This is not a bad suggestion, although it would make -cpu ? a bit
> > > awkward.  Do you see an advantage to this over having
> > > /usr/share/qemu/target-x86_64-cpus.cfg that's read early on?
> >
> > Nope.  As long as qemu -nodefconfig -cpu westmere works, I'm happy.
> As log as qemu -nodefconfig -cpu westmere -M pc1.1

-nodefconfig is going to eventually mean that -cpu westmere and -M pc-1.1 will 
not work.

This is where QEMU is going.  There is no reason that a normal user should ever 
use -nodefconfig.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori