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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 2/2] target-i386: add migration support for I
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Paolo Bonzini |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 2/2] target-i386: add migration support for Intel LMCE |
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Thu, 9 Jun 2016 10:23:52 +0200 |
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On 09/06/2016 09:16, Haozhong Zhang wrote:
> On 06/08/16 13:36, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 03/06/2016 08:09, Haozhong Zhang wrote:
>>> LMCE is disabled by default, but a cpu option 'lmce=on/off' is provided
>>> to enable/disable it. Migration is only allowed between VCPUs with the
>>> same lmce option.
>>
>> This is not needed at all if you do the change in patch 1 that Eduardo
>> requested (refuse to start if the host doesn't have the required
>> capabilities).
>>
>> So if you do that you can just move the lmce property to patch 1.
>>
>
> But it doesn't cover the migration from lmce-enabled qemu to
> lmce-disabled qemu where KVM on both hosts support LMCE.
That's a configuration problem; configuration is not migrated and is
assumed to be the same on the source and the destination. You don't
need to test for this scenario.
Paolo
In that case,
> both qemu can start without failure, but the guest OS will run in a VM
> with different configurations after migration. To avoid this, I didn't
> leave the lmce property in patch 1, so that users have no way to
> enable LMCE without this patch 2.
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 1/2] target-i386: KVM: add basic Intel LMCE support, (continued)
Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 1/2] target-i386: KVM: add basic Intel LMCE support, Eduardo Habkost, 2016/06/07
[Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 2/2] target-i386: add migration support for Intel LMCE, Haozhong Zhang, 2016/06/03
Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 0/2] Add QEMU support for Intel local MCE, Haozhong Zhang, 2016/06/03