[OE-core] [PATCH] runqemu: Use correct kvm CPU options for qemux86* with kvm

Khem Raj raj.khem at gmail.com
Wed Sep 25 22:05:22 UTC 2013


On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 3:00 PM, Richard Purdie
<richard.purdie at linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> On Wed, 2013-09-25 at 14:34 -0700, Khem Raj wrote:
>> On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 1:59 PM, Richard Purdie
>> <richard.purdie at linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
>> > The existing -cpu host option caused kernel panics when people attempted to use
>> > the kvm option. After research and discussion, the best options appear to
>> > be the kvm32/kvm64 cpu types so lets use these instead. These resolve
>> > the kernel issues for me.
>> >
>> > [YOCTO #3908]
>> >
>> > Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie at linuxfoundation.org>
>> > ---
>> > diff --git a/scripts/runqemu b/scripts/runqemu
>> > index efab1a2..12c58d9 100755
>> > --- a/scripts/runqemu
>> > +++ b/scripts/runqemu
>> > @@ -265,7 +265,11 @@ if [ "x$KVM_ENABLED" = "xyes" ]; then
>> >          exit 1;
>> >      fi
>> >      if [ -w /dev/kvm -a -r /dev/kvm ]; then
>> > -        SCRIPT_QEMU_OPT="$SCRIPT_QEMU_OPT -enable-kvm -cpu host"
>> > +        if [ "x$MACHINE" = "xqemux86" ]; then
>> > +            SCRIPT_QEMU_OPT="$SCRIPT_QEMU_OPT -enable-kvm -cpu kvm32"
>> > +        elif [ "x$MACHINE" = "xqemux86-64" ]; then
>> > +            SCRIPT_QEMU_OPT="$SCRIPT_QEMU_OPT -enable-kvm -cpu kvm64"
>> > +        fi
>>
>> may be leave the original in the else clause at the end so it covers
>> the non x86 cases too
>
> There is no non x86 case for kvm. Its already guarded against by code
> above here which errors if its not one of these two machines...
>

thats fine then
> Cheers,
>
> Richard
>



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