Re: [libvirt] [Qemu-devel] [uq/master PATCH 0/7] x86 CPU subclasses, take 7

On 01/31/2014 11:51 AM, Eduardo Habkost wrote: >> Allowing -device may be okay, since in the (very?) long term -device >> can be replaced by -object. But -object is definitive. > > OK, one additional reason to try device_add first. > > But then we have one additional problem: > > * We want to allow libvirt to probe for CPU model information when > running QEMU using "-machine none" (because libvirt already does > that, and we don't want to require libvirt to run QEMU multiple > times) > * "device_add driver=<model>-x86_64-cpu" requires an icc-bus to be present > * -machine none doesn't have any bus > * I don't see a way to create an icc-bus through QMP (is there a way?) Is the icc-bus something that makes sense for all architectures, so that libvirt could just blindly request a command line that uses '-machine none' but also instantiates the icc-bus? Even if icc-bus is x86-specific, libvirt DOES have some notion of what architecture a qemu executable will be targetting, and could modify the command line based on what architecture it guesses the binary will support, if only for the purpose of minimizing qemu invocations for its probe of supported cpus.

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