Il 05/11/2013 11:45, Alexey Kardashevskiy ha scritto: >> > Still in my opinion it should be "-cpu", not "-machine". Even if it's >> > just a "virtual" CPU model. > The compat option itself does not make much sense (yes we could just add > yet another CPU class and that's it) but with the > ibm,client-architecture-support we will have to implement this > compatibility mode anyway. Since the guest can ask for a compatibility mode > change, we either have to support compat option or hot-unplug all (all) CPU > objects in QEMU and hotplug CPUs of the requested model. Or always reset > the guest if it asked for a compatibility mode and recreate CPUs in QEMU > during reset. As for me, the compat option seems simpler.
Sure, just make it a suboption of "-cpu" rather than "-machine". Paolo