Re: [PATCH] qemu: Do not fail virConnectCompareCPU if host CPU is not known

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On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 01:06:08PM +0200, Jiri Denemark wrote:
> When host CPU could not be properly detected, virConnectCompareCPU will
> just report that any CPU is incompatible with host CPU instead of
> failing.
> ---
>  src/qemu/qemu_driver.c | 4 ++--
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/src/qemu/qemu_driver.c b/src/qemu/qemu_driver.c
> index dc04d13..6d3b8d5 100644
> --- a/src/qemu/qemu_driver.c
> +++ b/src/qemu/qemu_driver.c
> @@ -9419,8 +9419,8 @@ qemuCPUCompare(virConnectPtr conn,
>      qemuDriverLock(driver);
>  
>      if (!driver->caps || !driver->caps->host.cpu) {
> -        qemuReportError(VIR_ERR_OPERATION_INVALID,
> -                        "%s", _("cannot get host CPU capabilities"));
> +        VIR_WARN("cannot get host CPU capabilities");
> +        ret = VIR_CPU_COMPARE_INCOMPATIBLE;
>      } else {
>          ret = cpuCompareXML(driver->caps->host.cpu, xmlDesc);
>      }

Jiri, I think that I've changed my own taste about this, too.

I don't know what can lead driver->caps to be NULL, but I support that
many things that are unrelated to host CPU can.

If this is the case, the caller of cpuCompareXML may receive a
misleading VIR_CPU_COMPARE_INCOMPATIBLE. Limiting the new ret to the
case of driver->caps->host.cpu == NULL would have been better.

But again: is there a chance that driver->caps->host.cpu is NULL due to
lack of memory during host probing?

I'm still wondering why libvirt must detect a known hardware cpu on the
host. In the age of nested virt, it may find more bizarre combinations,
that it may be interesting to support.

Dan.

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