[libvirt] [PATCH v3 09/20] cpu: CPU model names have to match on ppc64

Jiri Denemark jdenemar at redhat.com
Tue Aug 11 07:57:54 UTC 2015


On Mon, Aug 10, 2015 at 10:55:51 +0200, Andrea Bolognani wrote:
> Limitations of the POWER architecture mean that you can't run
> eg. a POWER7 guest on a POWER8 host when using KVM. This applies
> to all guests, not just those using VIR_CPU_MATCH_STRICT in the
> CPU definition; in fact, exact and strict CPU matching are
> basically the same on ppc64.
> 
> This means, of course, that hosts using different CPUs have to be
> considered incompatible as well.
> 
> Change ppc64Compute(), called by cpuGuestData(), to reflect this
> fact and update test cases accordingly.
> 
> Resolves: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1250977

ACK

Jirka




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