[libvirt] [PATCH v7 3/9] libxl: warn about ignored CPU mode=custom

Marek Marczykowski-Górecki marmarek at invisiblethingslab.com
Thu Apr 12 01:03:21 UTC 2018


When support for mode=custom will be added in the future, semantics of
current config will change. Reduce the surprise by emitting a warning.

Signed-off-by: Marek Marczykowski-Górecki <marmarek at invisiblethingslab.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange at redhat.com>
---
Changes since v5:
 - new patch, instead of "libxl: error out on not supported CPU mode,
 instead of silently ignoring"
---
 src/libxl/libxl_conf.c | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/libxl/libxl_conf.c b/src/libxl/libxl_conf.c
index 2565f64..2053ed3 100644
--- a/src/libxl/libxl_conf.c
+++ b/src/libxl/libxl_conf.c
@@ -424,6 +424,12 @@ libxlMakeDomBuildInfo(virDomainDefPtr def,
             libxl_defbool_set(&b_info->u.hvm.nested_hvm, hasHwVirt);
         }
 
+        if (def->cpu && def->cpu->mode == VIR_CPU_MODE_CUSTOM) {
+            VIR_WARN("Ignoring CPU with mode=custom, update your config to "
+                     "mode=host-passthrough to avoid risk of changed guest "
+                     "semantics when mode=custom is supported in the future");
+        }
+
         if (def->nsounds > 0) {
             /*
              * Use first sound device.  man xl.cfg(5) describes soundhw as
-- 
git-series 0.9.1




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