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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] docs: add guidance on configuring CPU models fo
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Eduardo Habkost |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] docs: add guidance on configuring CPU models for x86 |
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Fri, 15 Jun 2018 15:58:05 -0300 |
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On Fri, Jun 15, 2018 at 03:16:09PM +0100, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
> With the recent set of CPU hardware vulnerabilities on x86, it is
> increasingly difficult to understand which CPU configurations are
> good to use and what flaws they might be vulnerable to.
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> This doc attempts to help management applications and administrators in
> picking sensible CPU configuration on x86 hosts. It outlines which of
> the named CPU models are good choices, and describes which extra CPU
> flags should be enabled to allow the guest to mitigate hardware flaws.
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> Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <address@hidden>
Thank you very much.
I wonder how we could reference this from the man page and
qemu-doc.html without saying "look at the QEMU source tree".
(I'm not willing to rewrite this using texinfo to make that
happen.)
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Eduardo