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