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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [libvirt] Modern CPU models cannot be used with
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To: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
Cc: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>, libvir-list@redhat.com, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>, Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>, Jiri Denemark <jdenemar@redhat.com>, "arch@ovirt.org" <arch@ovirt.org>

Am 10.03.2012 19:24, schrieb Anthony Liguori:
> Humans probably do one of two things: 1) no cpu option or 2) -cpu host.
>=20
> So then why are you introducing -cpu Westmere?
[...]
> P.S. I spent 30 minutes the other day helping a user who was attempting
> to figure out whether his processor was a Conroe, Penryn, etc.  Making
> this determination is fairly difficult and it makes me wonder whether
> having CPU code names is even the best interface for oVirt..

That's why Alex suggested -cpu best, which goes through all those
definitions whatever their name and chooses the closest one IIUC.

http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/134955/

Andreas

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