[Qemu-devel] Re: KVM call agenda for Jan 26

[Alexander Graf]

On 26.01.2010, at 07:49, Chris Wright wrote:

> Please send in any agenda items you are interested in covering.

KVM Hardware Inquiry Tool

One of the things I have on my todo list is a tool you can run on your machine 
that tells you which virtualization features it supports. Imaginary output of 
such a tool:

--

KVM Supported: yes
NPT/EPT: yes
Device Assignment: no

Expected Virtual CPU Speed: 95%

--

That way users can easily determine what to expect when they run KVM on a 
machine without need to know about CPUID flags that don't even get exposed in 
/proc/cpuinfo or grepping dmesg.

My main question on this one is how to best implement it.

Should this be part of qemu? We'll need some architecture specific backend 
code, so leveraging the structure might be helpful.
Should this be a separate script? That'd mean installing one more application 
that distros might name differently :(.
Does it even have chances to get accepted upstream?


Alex