On Fri, Jan 25, 2019 at 02:00:17PM +0000, Alex Bennée wrote:
> A lot of architectures can run their 32 bit cousins on KVM so the
> kvm_available function needs to be a little less restricting when
> deciding if KVM is available.
>
> Signed-off-by: Alex Bennée <alex.ben...@linaro.org>
> ---
> scripts/qemu.py | 11 ++++++++++-
> 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/scripts/qemu.py b/scripts/qemu.py
> index 0a5e02eb56..2934ee12c5 100644
> --- a/scripts/qemu.py
> +++ b/scripts/qemu.py
> @@ -25,9 +25,18 @@ import tempfile
>
> LOG = logging.getLogger(__name__)
>
> +# Mapping host architecture to any additional architectures it can
> +# support which often includes its 32 bit cousin.
> +ADDITIONAL_ARCHES = {
> + "x86_64" : "i386",
> + "aarch64" : "armhf"
> +}
>
> def kvm_available(target_arch=None):
> - if target_arch and target_arch != os.uname()[4]:
> + host_arch = os.uname()[4]
> + if target_arch and target_arch != host_arch:
> + if target_arch == ADDITIONAL_ARCHES[host_arch]:
This will crash host_arch isn't "x86_64" or "aarch64". I suggest
ADDITIONAL_ARCHES.get(host_arch)
> + return True
I don't think we should skip the /dev/kvm check here.
> return False
> return os.access("/dev/kvm", os.R_OK | os.W_OK)
>
> --
> 2.17.1
>
--
Eduardo
