Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [kvm-devel] expose host CPU features to guests

2007-09-07 Thread Jamie Lokier
Anthony Liguori wrote: > I like this idea but I have some suggestions about the general approach. > I think instead of defining another machine type, it would be better to > just have a command line option like -cpuid that took a comma separate > string of features with "all" meaning all features t

Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [kvm-devel] expose host CPU features to guests

2007-09-06 Thread Avi Kivity
Paul Brook wrote: I think qemu-cvs has a -cpu option for non-x86 which could be used for this. Agree machine types are the wrong approach. Yep, machine types are already used to switch between a different concept so using the new -cpu option would make sense. Could perhaps extend the sy

Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [kvm-devel] expose host CPU features to guests

2007-09-05 Thread Paul Brook
> > I think qemu-cvs has a -cpu option for non-x86 which could be used for > > this. Agree machine types are the wrong approach. > > Yep, machine types are already used to switch between a different concept > so using the new -cpu option would make sense. Could perhaps extend the > syntax so that