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| -rw-r--r-- | qemu-deprecated.texi | 8 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | target/i386/cpu.c | 8 |
2 files changed, 15 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/qemu-deprecated.texi b/qemu-deprecated.texi index 62680f7bd5..7b94653cef 100644 --- a/qemu-deprecated.texi +++ b/qemu-deprecated.texi @@ -367,6 +367,14 @@ guarantees must resolve the CPU model aliases using te ``alias-of'' field returned by the ``query-cpu-definitions'' QMP command. +While those guarantees are kept, the return value of +``query-cpu-definitions'' will have existing CPU model aliases +point to a version that doesn't break runnability guarantees +(specifically, version 1 of those CPU models). In future QEMU +versions, aliases will point to newer CPU model versions +depending on the machine type, so management software must +resolve CPU model aliases before starting a virtual machine. + @node Recently removed features @appendix Recently removed features diff --git a/target/i386/cpu.c b/target/i386/cpu.c index 0a9ac65974..ba5e9d5d6b 100644 --- a/target/i386/cpu.c +++ b/target/i386/cpu.c @@ -3981,7 +3981,13 @@ static PropValue tcg_default_props[] = { }; -X86CPUVersion default_cpu_version = CPU_VERSION_LATEST; +/* + * We resolve CPU model aliases using -v1 when using "-machine + * none", but this is just for compatibility while libvirt isn't + * adapted to resolve CPU model versions before creating VMs. + * See "Runnability guarantee of CPU models" at * qemu-deprecated.texi. + */ +X86CPUVersion default_cpu_version = 1; void x86_cpu_set_default_version(X86CPUVersion version) { |