From ccbd59931f2341ca626ca9ae3ab5aefa57d67f0e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jiri Denemark Date: Mon, 14 May 2018 14:10:48 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] virsh: Enhance documentation of cpu-models command MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Signed-off-by: Jiri Denemark Reviewed-by: Collin Walling Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko Reviewed-by: Kashyap Chamarthy --- tools/virsh.pod | 9 ++++++++- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/tools/virsh.pod b/tools/virsh.pod index 427dec1248..419c371d98 100644 --- a/tools/virsh.pod +++ b/tools/virsh.pod @@ -599,7 +599,14 @@ incompatibility will be printed out. =item B I -Print the list of CPU models known for the specified architecture. +Print the list of CPU models known by libvirt for the specified architecture. +Whether a specific hypervisor is able to create a domain which uses any of +the printed CPU models is a separate question which can be answered by +looking at the domain capabilities XML returned by B command. +Moreover, for some architectures libvirt does not know any CPU models and +the usable CPU models are only limited by the hypervisor. This command will +print that all CPU models are accepted for these architectures and the actual +list of supported CPU models can be checked in the domain capabilities XML. =item B [I<--shell>] [I<--xml>] [I...]