[libvirt] [Qemu-devel] [PATCH qom-cpu 0/9] x86: feature words array (v11) + "feature-words" property

Eric Blake eblake at redhat.com
Thu May 2 19:48:56 UTC 2013


On 05/02/2013 01:43 PM, Eduardo Habkost wrote:
>>
>> As mentioned earlier I'd prefer to defer the property design rather than
>> putting it lightly reviewed into 1.5 and living with some ABI.
>> If libvirt urgently needs this info, this series needs to be reviewed
>> and sorted out until the weekend (Hard Freeze on Monday).
> 
> I consider it an important bugfix for the QEMU+libvirt stack. The
> current libvirt behavior (checking CPUID directly; not using the
> "enforce" flag; and having its own copy of each CPU model definition) is
> unsafe and may break live-migration silently under many circumstances.

I agree that libvirt would very much like to have this in 1.5.  How can
I help in reviewing things?

-- 
Eric Blake   eblake redhat com    +1-919-301-3266
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org

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