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

On 03/25/2012 02:55 PM, Anthony Liguori wrote: >> If cpu models are not part of configuration they should not be affected >> by configuration mechanism. You are just avoiding addressing the real >> question that if asked above. > > > I think you're just refusing to listen. > > The stated direction of QEMU, for literally years now, is that we want > to arrive at the following: > > QEMU is composed of a series of objects who's relationships can be > fully described by an external configuration file. Much of the > current baked in concepts (like machines) would then become > configuration files. > > 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.

> I think the thread has reduced to: should /usr/share configuration > files be read by default or just treated as additional configuration > files. If they're read as soon as they're referenced, what's the difference?