Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 3/4] target-i386: Allow changing of Hypervisor CPUIDs.

2012-09-14 Thread Marcelo Tosatti
On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 02:43:55PM -0400, Don Slutz wrote: > On 09/12/12 13:55, Marcelo Tosatti wrote: > >The problem with integrating this is that it has little or > >no assurance from documentation. The Linux kernel source is a good > >source, then say "accordingly to VMWare guest support code in

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 3/4] target-i386: Allow changing of Hypervisor CPUIDs.

2012-09-13 Thread Don Slutz
On 09/12/12 13:55, Marcelo Tosatti wrote: The problem with integrating this is that it has little or no assurance from documentation. The Linux kernel source is a good source, then say "accordingly to VMWare guest support code in version xyz" in the changelog. I will work on getting a list of the

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 3/4] target-i386: Allow changing of Hypervisor CPUIDs.

2012-09-12 Thread Marcelo Tosatti
The problem with integrating this is that it has little or no assurance from documentation. The Linux kernel source is a good source, then say "accordingly to VMWare guest support code in version xyz" in the changelog. Also extracting this information in a text file (or comment in the code) woul

[Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 3/4] target-i386: Allow changing of Hypervisor CPUIDs.

2012-09-11 Thread Don Slutz
This is primarily done so that the guest will think it is running under vmware when hypervisor-vendor=vmware is specified as a property of a cpu. Signed-off-by: Don Slutz --- target-i386/cpu.c | 214 + target-i386/cpu.h | 21 + target-i3