On Thu, Jun 25, 2015 at 02:49:08PM +0100, Peter Maydell wrote:
On 25 June 2015 at 14:44, Marc Zyngier [off-list ref] wrote:
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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.
ok, this makes sense. It's basically up to userspace to mandate that
trying to migrate something that used unknown cpu (via -cpu host or
whatever) cannot be migrated.
-Christoffer