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stackhpc / ansible-role-libvirt-vm

This role configures and creates VMs on a KVM hypervisor.
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Default to software emulation if target architecture != host_architecture #13

Closed jovial closed 5 years ago

jovial commented 5 years ago

The qemu-kvm binary only supports the host architecture. We must therefore use the qemu-system- binaries when the target architecture is not the same as the host architecture.

Although it may be possible that the host CPU may support acceleration for a foreign architecture, I do not currently know of any chips that support this functionality. For this reason, we default to software emulation.