On 8 January 2012 23:52, Alexander Graf <ag...@suse.de> wrote: > During discussions on whether to make -cpu host the default in SLE, I found > myself disagreeing to the thought, because it potentially opens a big can > of worms for potential bugs. But if I already am so opposed to it for SLE, how > can it possibly be reasonable to default to -cpu host in upstream QEMU? And > what would a sane default look like? > > So I had this idea of looping through all available CPU definitions. We can > pretty well tell if our host is able to execute any of them by checking the > respective flags and seeing if our host has all features the CPU definition > requires. With that, we can create a -cpu type that would fall back to the > "best known CPU definition" that our host can fulfill. On my Phenom II > system for example, that would be -cpu phenom.
...shouldn't this be supported on at least all hosts with KVM support, not just x86? Also I don't see any documentation updates in this patchset :-) -- PMM
