[ovirt-devel] rethinking fake-kvm and faqemu

[Dan Kenigsberg]

On Mon, Oct 26, 2015 at 11:17:10AM +0100, Michal Skrivanek wrote:
> 
> > On 26 Oct 2015, at 09:41, Dan Kenigsberg <danken at redhat.com> wrote:
> > 
> > On Mon, Oct 05, 2015 at 02:53:00PM +0200, Martin Polednik wrote:
> >> On 05/10/15 11:31 +0200, Michal Skrivanek wrote:
> >>> 
> >>> On Oct 3, 2015, at 20:48 , Martin Polednik <mpolednik at redhat.com> wrote:
> >>> 
> >>>> Hello everyone,
> >>>> 
> >>>> I've been reworking the fake_kvm and faqemu VDSM hook to make them
> >>>> somewhat more usable and mostly to allow testing of ppc64le on x86_64
> >>>> based hosts.
> >>>> 
> >>>> TL;DR version: checkout [1], enable fake_kvm and happy ppc64le hacking :)
> > 
> > I like the initiative and the approach. Dropping faqemu bits out of
> > mainline caps.py was an old task of mine. Moving code into lib/vdsm is a
> > big task for our next release anyway.
> 
> one more unrelated note
> current faqemu is broken on 3.6 as it removes the whole cpu tag which is needed when hotplug memory is enabled, which in turn enables numa, libvirt checks for cpu-numa mapping and fails to find any
> please fix it along the way:-)

Better fix it on its own, since we'd need to have the fix backported.
(unless you plan to backport the whole cpuinfo branch)