Management software will be expected to resolve CPU model name aliases using the new field.
Signed-off-by: Eduardo Habkost <ehabk...@redhat.com> --- Changes v1 -> v2: * (none) Cc: Eric Blake <ebl...@redhat.com> Cc: Markus Armbruster <arm...@redhat.com> --- qapi/target.json | 9 ++++++++- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/qapi/target.json b/qapi/target.json index 1d4d54b600..0197c7962c 100644 --- a/qapi/target.json +++ b/qapi/target.json @@ -475,6 +475,12 @@ # to introspect properties configurable using -cpu or -global. # (since 2.9) # +# @alias-of: Name of CPU model this model is an alias for. The target of the +# CPU model alias may change depending on the machine type. +# Management software is supposed to translate CPU model aliases +# in the VM configuration, because aliases may stop being +# migration-safe in the future (since 4.1) +# # @unavailable-features is a list of QOM property names that # represent CPU model attributes that prevent the CPU from running. # If the QOM property is read-only, that means there's no known @@ -498,7 +504,8 @@ '*migration-safe': 'bool', 'static': 'bool', '*unavailable-features': [ 'str' ], - 'typename': 'str' }, + 'typename': 'str', + '*alias-of' : 'str' }, 'if': 'defined(TARGET_PPC) || defined(TARGET_ARM) || defined(TARGET_I386) || defined(TARGET_S390X) || defined(TARGET_MIPS)' } ## -- 2.18.0.rc1.1.g3f1ff2140