Re: [libvirt] [PATCH 0/2] Avoid issues due to qemu dropping osxsave and ospke

Hi, this series tries to address a drop of commandline options by qemu in regard to osxsave [1] and ospke [2]. This was already discussed in [3] late last year but got forgotten afterwards. The Ubuntu bug is at [4] and an older Fedora bug is at [5]. TL;DR: - osxsave/ospke features were never really configurable - KVM never returned the bits on GET_SUPPORTED_CPUID - very rare to be seen in the wild - avoid issues with newer qemu and old/odd XMLs to be sure Details: I checked various use cases from virt-install to openstack and some in between. The only cases I found that would define osxsave/ospke is virt-install pior to version 2.0 and even there only when used with --cpu=host-model or --cpu=host-copy. If you ever really enabled the feature you'd have got: error: the CPU is incompatible with host CPU: Host CPU does not provide required features: ospke The problem lies in domain XMLs that explicitly disable it. That would be <feature policy='disable' name='osxsave'/> But due to almost (or actually none) no host exposing this the following also triggers: <feature policy='optional' name='ospke'/> This will make libvirt add it to the qemu commandline like: -cpu ...,osxsave=off,ospke=off And that will crash when qemu starts with: error: internal error: process exited while connecting to monitor: 2019-04-25T12:12:01.698646Z qemu-system-x86_64: can't apply global core2duo-x86_64-cpu.osxsave=off: Property '.osxsave' not found There are much more long term discussions about demoting and dropping qemu features and I'd like to avoid those discussions being mixed. The reason to drop it more or less without notice was that it never did anything to begin with. Due to that our solution might in a similar fashion be more trivial - just stop defining those two features to qemu commandline. [1]: https://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git;a=commit;h=f1a23522b03a569f13aad49294bb4... [2]: https://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git;a=commit;h=9ccb9784b57804f5c74434ad6ccb6... [3]: https://www.mail-archive.com/qemu-devel@nongnu.org/msg561877.html [4]: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libvirt/+bug/1825195 [5]: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1644848 Christian Ehrhardt (2): qemu: do not define known no-op features qemuxml2argvtest: add test for remove cpu features src/qemu/qemu_command.c | 23 +++++++++++++++ .../qemuxml2argvdata/cpu-host-model-cmt.args | 2 +- .../cpu-no-removed-features.args | 29 +++++++++++++++++++ .../cpu-no-removed-features.xml | 23 +++++++++++++++ tests/qemuxml2argvdata/cpu-tsc-frequency.args | 4 +-- tests/qemuxml2argvtest.c | 1 + 6 files changed, 79 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) create mode 100644 tests/qemuxml2argvdata/cpu-no-removed-features.args create mode 100644 tests/qemuxml2argvdata/cpu-no-removed-features.xml