Re: [libvirt] ARM KVM GICv3 Support

On 15 December 2015 at 14:12, Martin Kletzander <mkletzan(a)redhat.com&gt; wrote: > On Tue, Dec 15, 2015 at 09:41:02AM +0000, Peter Maydell wrote: >> >> On 15 December 2015 at 09:36, Martin Kletzander <mkletzan(a)redhat.com&gt; >> wrote: >>> >>> We do pass some options, for example, you can restrict the GIC to v2: >>> https://libvirt.org/formatdomain.html#elementsFeatures >>> >>> That could be modified to work for your purpose IIUC, right? >> >> >> What does that option do to the QEMU command line? The documentation >> doesn't seem to say. >> > > It appends gic-version= to the machine option, if bunch of conditions > are met -- it has to be ARM machine, it has to be something else than > version 2, and so on, more details are visible in the code and I won't > cover them here. I hope that's understandable. OK. So it should be sufficient just to have <gic version='host'/> which will then provide whatever VGIC the host machine can do with hardware acceleration.