[libvirt-users] CPU Model detection with virsh capabilities

[Jiri Denemark]

On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 16:33:53 +0200, Olivier BONHOMME wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Thanks for your answer. My virsh capabilities is the following :
> 
>      <cpu>
>        <arch>x86_64</arch>
>        <model>pentium3</model>
>        <vendor>Intel</vendor>
>        <topology sockets='1' cores='4' threads='1'/>
>        <feature name='lahf_lm'/>
>        <feature name='lm'/>
>        <feature name='syscall'/>
>        <feature name='sse4.1'/>
>        <feature name='dca'/>
>        <feature name='xtpr'/>
>        <feature name='cx16'/>
>        <feature name='ssse3'/>
>        <feature name='tm2'/>
>        <feature name='est'/>
>        <feature name='vmx'/>
>        <feature name='ds_cpl'/>
>        <feature name='monitor'/>
>        <feature name='pni'/>
>        <feature name='pbe'/>
>        <feature name='tm'/>
>        <feature name='ht'/>
>        <feature name='ss'/>
>        <feature name='sse2'/>
>        <feature name='acpi'/>
>        <feature name='ds'/>
>        <feature name='clflush'/>
>        <feature name='apic'/>
>      </cpu>
> 
> About what you say, I totally agree. It's just I am very surprised that 
> an Intel Xeon E5430 is detected just as a pentium3

That's because your CPU doesn't support nx feature, which is included in all
models better than pentium3.

Jirka