Re: Virtualization and older CPUs

2024-07-24 Thread Javier Perez
Thanks! Found it. Let me play with it. On Tue, Jul 23, 2024 at 7:11 AM Sam Varshavchik wrote: > Javier Perez writes: > > > »Hi. > > How can I tell virt-manager to create a VM but with a CPU of an older > > generation? I am trying to play an old game with wine but I keep > getting > > crashes. So

Re: Virtualization and older CPUs

2024-07-23 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Javier Perez writes: »Hi. How can I tell virt-manager to create a VM but with a CPU of an older generation? I am trying to play an old game with wine but I keep getting crashes. Something about UMIP and SIDTs and similar stuff. I did some VM tinkering earlier this year. My recollection is

Re: Virtualization and older CPUs

2024-07-23 Thread Javier Perez
Thx! On Tue, Jul 23, 2024, 04:08 Will McDonald wrote: > This looks like if might help lead you toward an answer... > > > https://qemu-project.gitlab.io/qemu/system/qemu-cpu-models.html#libvirt-guest-xml > > > > On Tue, 23 Jul 2024, 09:54 Javier Perez, wrote: > >> Hi. >> How can I tell virt-mana

Re: Virtualization and older CPUs

2024-07-23 Thread Will McDonald
And... now I'm on a machine with libvirt. >From man virt-install: > --cpu > Syntax: --cpu MODEL[,+feature][,-feature][,match=MATCH][,vendor=VEN‐ > DOR],... > > Use --cpu=? to see a list of all available sub options. Complete de‐ > tails at https://libvirt.org/formatdom

Re: Virtualization and older CPUs

2024-07-23 Thread Will McDonald
This looks like if might help lead you toward an answer... https://qemu-project.gitlab.io/qemu/system/qemu-cpu-models.html#libvirt-guest-xml On Tue, 23 Jul 2024, 09:54 Javier Perez, wrote: > Hi. > How can I tell virt-manager to create a VM but with a CPU of an older > generation? I am trying

Virtualization and older CPUs

2024-07-23 Thread Javier Perez
Hi. How can I tell virt-manager to create a VM but with a CPU of an older generation? I am trying to play an old game with wine but I keep getting crashes. Something about UMIP and SIDTs and similar stuff. My plan is, given that my CPU is 14th generation, probably I could get away virtualizing a VM