[ovirt-users] CPU Type

[Itamar Heim]

On 12/20/2014 06:31 PM, Brent Hartzell wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Is there a way to add “Xeon” or another class of CPU Type to oVirt? We
> have some test hosts, which use a combo of the following CPU types:
>
> Xeon L5420
>
> Xeon E5430
>
> Xeon E5420
>
> The only two CPU Types that will work in oVirt are Conroe & Penryn.
> Inside of a VM, it reports “Core 2 Duo”.
>
> Host reports:
>
> model name      : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU           E5430  @ 2.66GHz
>
> VM reports:
>
> model name      : Intel Core 2 Duo P9xxx (Penryn Class Core 2)
>
> //
>
> Is there a way to have the VM report the correct CPU? It doesn’t appear
> to cause any performance or other issues, but seems to be just a display
> issue. My concern though, is that we may not be able to add other
> servers with different Intels to the same cluster, for example, new
> hosts with E5-XXXX or E3-XXXX processors. Can someone confirm this
> wouldn’t be an issue?
>
>
>
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you can set the VM to use the host cpu (it won't be migratable, but you 
can check if it makes any difference before checking other alternatives)