Re: [Qemu-devel] Not introducing new host-side requirements on new machine-type versions (was Re: [PATCH 0/2] target-i386: "custom" CPU model + script to dump existing CPU models)

[Andreas Färber]

Am 24.06.2015 um 18:08 schrieb Eduardo Habkost:
> On Wed, Jun 24, 2015 at 05:58:18PM +0200, Andreas Färber wrote:
>> Are we at the same point of stability guarantee for ppc POWER?
>> For s390x, arm and aarch64 I guess not yet?
> 
> That's a good question, and I have no idea how difficult it would be to
> implement that guarantee in those machines.
> 
> In s390x we are implementing machine-type-dependent "runnable" info on
> query-cpu-definitions, but I don't know what the use caes look like, and
> what are the consequences for libvirt and OpenStack.

I assume this discussion is going to be summarized on the Wiki at some
point. Just be sure to explicitly mention x86 then, to be safe.

Cheers,
Andreas

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