On Sun, 2013-05-12 at 20:43 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: [...] > The kernel already does this. When I run: > > kvm -cpu pentium2 -kernel /boot/vmlinuz-3.2.0-4-amd64 -append quiet > > the kernel prints: > > This kernel requires an x86-64 CPU, but only detected an i486 CPU. > Unable to boot - please use a kernel appropriate for your CPU. [...]
Actually I mixed up two different tests there - it really shows '...detected an i686 CPU' in this case. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Always try to do things in chronological order; it's less confusing that way.
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