Re: [libvirt] s390: change default cpu model to host-model?

On 02.11.19 11:32, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote: > On Fri, Nov 01, 2019 at 06:43:16PM +0100, Christian Borntraeger wrote: > > On the KVM forum I have discussed the default cpu model mode on s390. > > Right now if the xml does not specify anything, libvirt defaults to > > not specifying anything on the qemu command line (no -cpu statement) > > which is the equivalent of -cpu host for s390 which is equivalent to > > host-passthrough. While this enables all features it does not provide > > any migration safety by default. > > > > So in fact we are kind of "broken" right now when it comes to safery. > > > > So we discussed that it would make sense that an empty xml should actually > > be defaulted to host-model, which results in - as of today - the same guest > > features but in a migration safe way. > > > > There is another change planned right now to actually make the cpu model > > present in an xml if none was specified. So we could actually do this change > > before, together or after te other. Jiri and I think it probably makes most > > sense to have both changes at the same time (in terms of libvirt version). > > > > Does anyone see an issue with changing the default model mode to "host-model" > > if the xml does not specify anything else? > > Changing from "host-passthrough" to "host-model" is not a huge difference, > but it is none the less a guest ABI change. "host-passthrough" doesn't > provide migration safety in the face of differing hardware, it should still > be valid for people with homogeneous hardware. So changing the model will > potentially break some existing usage. I guess on s390x this is not the case ("-cpu host", no "-cpu", and passing the expanded "host" model will result in the same guest ABI, in contrast to x86 AFAIK). There is this special case, though, where we have old QEMUs without CPU model support. Not sure how to deal with that, then.