I really thought if something is HOST ISA compatible then it should be runnable on KVM. On similar lines it should be possible to run Realview-PB-A8 (ARMv7a ISA) guest on VExpress-A9 (ARMv7a ISA) host. --Anup On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 1:24 PM, Peter Maydell <peter.maydell at linaro.org>wrote: > On 16 May 2012 05:05, Anup Patel <anup at brainfault.org> wrote: > > Realview-PB-A8 kernel boots fine on QEMU Emulator. The kernel gets > alignment > > faults only when we try to use KVM ARM. > > TCG QEMU doesn't emulate alignment faults, so you'll never see them. > (This is really a bug in TCG QEMU.) > > > Although, I did not see this issue with VExpress-A9 kernel, so have > > mentioned it explicitly in my patch. Making this change CPUID specific > would > > be even more correct way of doing it. > > What I mean is that we should be checking CPUID and saying "no, > you cannot emulate an A8 or A9 with KVM". > > -- PMM > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/pipermail/android-virt/attachments/20120516/479ac543/attachment-0001.html
