[libvirt] [QEMU PATCH 3/3] x86: pc: versioned CPU model names & compatibility aliases

Jiri Denemark jdenemar at redhat.com
Thu Jul 26 14:33:36 UTC 2012


On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 15:18:43 -0300, Eduardo Habkost wrote:
> This adds version number to CPU model names on the "pc-<version>"
> machine-types, so we can create new models with bug fixes while keeping
> compatibility when using older machine-types.
> 
> When naming the existing models, I used the last QEMU version where the
> model was changed (see summary below), but by coincidence every single
> one was changed on QEMU-1.1.
> 
> - Conroe, Penryn, Nehalem, Opteron_G1, Opteron_G2, Opteron_G3:
>   added on 0.13, changed on 1.1
> - Westmere, SandyBridge, Opteron_G4: added on 1.1

Hi Eduardo,

What models would be listed by "qemu-system-x86_64 -cpu ?"? Only non-versioned
model aliases or full names with versions or both?

Jirka




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