Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH RFC 4/8] i386/kvm: Implement 'hv-all' pass-through mode

[Dr. David Alan Gilbert]

* Vitaly Kuznetsov (address@hidden) wrote:
> "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > I'm not sure what the equivalent bear traps are in the Hyper-V world,
> > but I'd be surprised if there weren't any; for example what happens
> > when someone upgrades one of their hosts to some minor version that
> > adds/removes a feature?
> 
> Here we're talking about Hyper-V emulation in KVM, features only get
> added there, but even if it gets removed it will be detected by libvirt ...

OK, but then you do get the same behaviour; upgrade a host to a new
kernel/qemu and get a new enlightenment, and you can't back migrate to
the older one (possibly with no warning).

> >
> > Also, how does libvirt figure out that the features are actually the
> > same - does it need a bunch of detection code?
> 
> ... as I *think* it compares Feature CPUID words (and all Hyper-V
> features which we enable with hv-all are there).

Not too bad if it does, but also look at the scary command lines we get
generated full of -cpu ...+feature,+feature,-feature,.... 

Dave

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> Vitaly
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