Re: [libvirt] [PATCH] virt-host-validate: improve tests for arm/aarch64
On 13 June 2016 at 20:20, Andrea Bolognani <abologna(a)redhat.com> wrote:
So, this has already been merged and it's definitely an
improvement over the existing situation (thanks to both you
and Michal, by the way!), but I was wondering whether
removing the hardware check altogether is a good idea.
I wondered too, but opted in keeping the existing checks. They
might still save someones time.
There is a difference between KVM not being built properly /
shipped / loaded and the host not supporting hardware
virtualization at all. We capture that difference on x86
and s390, but not on aarch64 and ppc64.
Is figuring out whether hardware virtualization support is
present just not feasible on aarch64, eg. because each
reports the information in a different way, or because the
information is not exposed to userspace at all?
The information isn't exposed to userspace. The closest thing
we have is looking at kernel error messages when kvm is initialized.
Lack of virtualization support on arm64 is usually a firmware issue.
Riku