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[v7,2/9] i386: clarify 'hv-passthrough' behavior

Message ID 20210603114835.847451-3-vkuznets@redhat.com (mailing list archive)
State New, archived
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Series i386: KVM: expand Hyper-V features early | expand

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Vitaly Kuznetsov June 3, 2021, 11:48 a.m. UTC 
Clarify the fact that 'hv-passthrough' only enables features which are
already known to QEMU and that it overrides all other 'hv-*' settings.

Signed-off-by: Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@redhat.com>
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 docs/hyperv.txt | 7 +++++--
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

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Eduardo Habkost June 3, 2021, 10:28 p.m. UTC | #1 
On Thu, Jun 03, 2021 at 01:48:28PM +0200, Vitaly Kuznetsov wrote:
> Clarify the fact that 'hv-passthrough' only enables features which are
> already known to QEMU and that it overrides all other 'hv-*' settings.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@redhat.com>

Reviewed-by: Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com>
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diff --git a/docs/hyperv.txt b/docs/hyperv.txt
index e53c581f4586..a51953daa833 100644
--- a/docs/hyperv.txt
+++ b/docs/hyperv.txt
@@ -209,8 +209,11 @@  In some cases (e.g. during development) it may make sense to use QEMU in
 'pass-through' mode and give Windows guests all enlightenments currently
 supported by KVM. This pass-through mode is enabled by "hv-passthrough" CPU
 flag.
-Note: enabling this flag effectively prevents migration as supported features
-may differ between target and destination.
+Note: "hv-passthrough" flag only enables enlightenments which are known to QEMU
+(have corresponding "hv-*" flag) and copies "hv-spinlocks="/"hv-vendor-id="
+values from KVM to QEMU. "hv-passthrough" overrides all other "hv-*" settings on
+the command line. Also, enabling this flag effectively prevents migration as the
+list of enabled enlightenments may differ between target and destination hosts.
 
 
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