[PATCH] arm64/kvm: Add generic v8 KVM target

Peter Maydell peter.maydell at linaro.org
Thu Jun 25 06:49:08 PDT 2015


On 25 June 2015 at 14:44, Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier at arm.com> wrote:
> It should always be possible to emulate a "known" CPU on a generic host,
> and it should be able to migrate. The case we can't migrate is when we
> let the guest be generic (which I guess should really be unknown, and
> not generic).
>
> So if the user specify "-cpu cortex-a57" on the command line, the guest
> should be able to migrate from an A72 to an A53. if the user specified
> "-cpu host", the resulting guest won't be able to migrate.
>
> Does it make sense?

Yes. We've always said "-cpu host" won't be cross-host migratable
from a QEMU point of view.

-- PMM



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