[libvirt] [PATCH v3 28/28] news: Detect host CPU model by asking QEMU on x86_64

Jiri Denemark jdenemar at redhat.com
Thu Feb 23 14:15:26 UTC 2017


Signed-off-by: Jiri Denemark <jdenemar at redhat.com>
---

Notes:
    Version 3:
    - no change
    
    Version 2:
    - no change

 docs/news.xml | 11 +++++++++++
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+)

diff --git a/docs/news.xml b/docs/news.xml
index 74dfe9add..355dfa7b7 100644
--- a/docs/news.xml
+++ b/docs/news.xml
@@ -130,6 +130,17 @@
           driver with all backends which may pull in too many dependencies.
         </description>
       </change>
+      <change>
+        <summary>
+          qemu: Detect host CPU model by asking QEMU on x86_64
+        </summary>
+        <description>
+          Previously, libvirt detected the host CPU model using CPUID
+          instruction, which cased libvirt to detect a lot of CPU features
+          that are not supported by QEMU/KVM. Asking QEMU makes sure we
+          don't ask for unsupported features.
+        </description>
+      </change>
     </section>
     <section title="Bug fixes">
       <change>
-- 
2.11.1




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