Libvirt provides a portable, long term stable C API for managing the virtualization technologies provided by many operating systems. It includes support for QEMU, KVM, Xen, LXC, bhyve, Virtuozzo, VMware vCenter and ESX, VMware Desktop, Hyper-V, VirtualBox and the POWER Hypervisor.
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Jiri Denemark f928eb5fc8 qemu: Change CPU comparison algorithm for future models
When starting a domain we check whether the guest CPU definition is
compatible with the host (i.e., when the host supports all features
required both explicitly and by the specified CPU model) as long as
check == 'partial', which is the default.

We are doing so by checking our definition of the CPU model in the CPU
map amending it with explicitly mentioned features and comparing it to
features QEMU would enabled when started with -cpu host. But since our
CPU model definitions often slightly differ from QEMU we may be checking
features which are not actually needed and on the other hand not
checking something that is part of the CPU model in QEMU.

This patch changes the algorithm for CPU models added in the future
(changing it for existing models could cause them to suddenly become
incompatible with the host and domains using them would fail to start).
The new algorithm uses information we probe from QEMU about features
that block each model from being directly usable. If all those features
are explicitly disabled in the CPU definition we consider the base model
compatible with the host. Then we only need to check that all explicitly
required features are supported by QEMU on the host to get the result
for the whole CPU definition.

After this we only use the model definitions (for newly added models)
from CPU map for creating a CPU definition for host-model.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Denemark <jdenemar@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
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Libvirt API for virtualization

Libvirt provides a portable, long term stable C API for managing the virtualization technologies provided by many operating systems. It includes support for QEMU, KVM, Xen, LXC, bhyve, Virtuozzo, VMware vCenter and ESX, VMware Desktop, Hyper-V, VirtualBox and the POWER Hypervisor.

For some of these hypervisors, it provides a stateful management daemon which runs on the virtualization host allowing access to the API both by non-privileged local users and remote users.

Layered packages provide bindings of the libvirt C API into other languages including Python, Perl, PHP, Go, Java, OCaml, as well as mappings into object systems such as GObject, CIM and SNMP.

Further information about the libvirt project can be found on the website:

https://libvirt.org

License

The libvirt C API is distributed under the terms of GNU Lesser General Public License, version 2.1 (or later). Some parts of the code that are not part of the C library may have the more restrictive GNU General Public License, version 2.0 (or later). See the files COPYING.LESSER and COPYING for full license terms & conditions.

Installation

Instructions on building and installing libvirt can be found on the website:

https://libvirt.org/compiling.html

Contributing

The libvirt project welcomes contributions in many ways. For most components the best way to contribute is to send patches to the primary development mailing list. Further guidance on this can be found on the website:

https://libvirt.org/contribute.html

Contact

The libvirt project has two primary mailing lists:

Further details on contacting the project are available on the website:

https://libvirt.org/contact.html