[libvirt] ARM KVM GICv3 Support

[Andrew Jones]

On Tue, Dec 15, 2015 at 04:42:13PM +0000, Peter Maydell wrote:
> On 15 December 2015 at 16:35, Andrew Jones <drjones at redhat.com> wrote:
> > This is probably good for guests that happy with both. Guests that
> > need/want a specific choice will put their integer there, and then
> > we need a way to do a capabilities check before launching that guest
> > on an arbitrary host.
> 
> OK, so how do we typically do that? I notice I have a 'kvm-ok'
> script on my machine which helpfully reports things like whether
> KVM is enabled, and it seems like it might be helpful to extend
> that to know a bit more about ARM hosts. But I'm guessing libvirt
> doesn't use that for its capability checking ?

I defer to our libvirt experts. I'm suspicious that we'll need libvirt
changes though, as my experience with libvirt capabilities has always
been for cpu features, not machine model features, and thus I'm not
sure there's support for the later yet.

Thanks,
drew