[libvirt] [PATCH] virt-host-validate: improve tests for arm/aarch64

[Andrea Bolognani]

On Tue, 2016-06-14 at 16:34 +0300, Riku Voipio wrote:
> > There is a difference between KVM not being built properly /
> > shipped / loaded and the host not supporting hardware
> > virtualization at all. We capture that difference on x86
> > and s390, but not on aarch64 and ppc64.
> > 
> > Is figuring out whether hardware virtualization support is
> > present just not feasible on aarch64, eg. because each
> > reports the information in a different way, or because the
> > information is not exposed to userspace at all?
> 
> The information isn't exposed to userspace. The closest thing
> we have is looking at kernel error messages when kvm is initialized.
> Lack of virtualization support on arm64 is usually a firmware issue.

I see. Let's leave it as it is then.

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Andrea Bolognani
Software Engineer - Virtualization Team