/* libguestfs * Copyright (C) 2009-2025 Red Hat Inc. * * This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or * modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public * License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either * version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. * * This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU * Lesser General Public License for more details. * * You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public * License along with this library; if not, write to the Free Software * Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA */ /** * The appliance choice of CPU model. */ #include #include #include #include "guestfs.h" #include "guestfs-internal.h" /** * Return the right CPU model to use as the qemu C<-cpu> parameter or * its equivalent in libvirt. This returns: * * =over 4 * * =item C<"host"> * * The literal string C<"host"> means use C<-cpu host>. * * =item C<"max"> * * The literal string C<"max"> means use C<-cpu max> (the best * possible). This requires awkward translation for libvirt. * * =item some string * * Some string such as C<"cortex-a57"> means use C<-cpu cortex-a57>. * * =item C * * C means no C<-cpu> option at all. Note returning C * does not indicate an error. * * =back * * This is made unnecessarily hard and fragile because of two stupid * choices in QEMU: * * =over 4 * * =item * * * The default for C is to emulate a * C (WTF?). * * =item * * * We don't know for sure if KVM will work, but C<-cpu host> is broken * with TCG, so we almost always pass a broken C<-cpu> flag if KVM is * semi-broken in any way. * * =back */ const char * guestfs_int_get_cpu_model (int kvm) { #if defined(__aarch64__) /* With -M virt, the default -cpu is cortex-a15. Stupid. */ if (kvm) return "host"; else return "cortex-a57"; #elif defined(__powerpc64__) /* See discussion in https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1605071 */ return NULL; #elif defined(__loongarch64) /* qemu-system-loongarch64 doesn't yet support -cpu max */ return NULL; #else /* On most architectures we can use "max" to get the best possible CPU. * For recent qemu this should work even on TCG. */ return "max"; #endif }