Hi Stefan,

El 13/2/20 a las 15:58, Stefan Reiter escribió:
Hi,

On 2/13/20 1:27 PM, Eneko Lacunza wrote:
Hi Stefan,

Do you think this could help specifying a custom CPU model that will migrate VMs with more than 1 core between Intel and AMD CPUs?
https://bugzilla.proxmox.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1660


as discussed on the bug report you linked, live migration between hosts using different vendors' CPUs is very much unsupported in general (with KVM-enabled VMs). Even if it _appears_ to work, there are no guarantees about stability.

That said, if you find a specific CPU flag configuration that seems to work for you (like comment #12 in the report mentions), this series would indeed allow you to specify it as a custom CPU model instead of having to use the '-args' parameter.
I don't understand why you insist that this isn't supported. Linux KVM FAQ says otherwise:

https://www.linux-kvm.org/page/FAQ#Does_KVM_support_live_migration_from_an_AMD_host_to_an_Intel_host_and_back.3F

"
Does KVM support live migration from an AMD host to an Intel host and back?

Yes. [...]
"

I understand that there can be bugs, or maybe Proxmox VE as a product can decide no to support such a feature; but technically upstrean says that it should work. Shall I report the issue upstream directly?

Thanks a lot
Eneko

Hope that helps,

Stefan

Thanks a lot
Eneko


El 12/2/20 a las 16:11, Stefan Reiter escribió:
Based on the RFC and following on- and off-list discussion about custom CPU
models [0].

In essence, this revised patch allows a user to specify custom CPU models in /etc/pve/cpu-models.conf (section-config style [1]), where VMs using that CPU
model inherit details from the definition. This removes any fragile
"auto-magical" CPU flag detection, while still giving the user a way to create VMs with the best possible subset of CPU features maintaining live-migration
compatibility.

Includes the infrastructure for broadcasting supported CPU flags for each
cluster-node via the key-value store - this is not necessary for the
custom-cpu feature in particular, but I think could prove useful for
implementing the GUI part (e.g. show the user which flags are supported on which
nodes).


v7 -> v8:
* rebase on master, fix tests now using +pve0
* fixed nits noted by Thomas
* moved live-migration/snapshot patches forward to avoid temporary breakage
* fix CPU hotplug with custom CPUs
* guard mkdir with check_cfs_is_mounted and also run before write
* fix rebase-error in cfg2cmd tests (getaddrinfo_all)
* dropped applied patches

I deliberately didn't add any version_guard checks, since I don't think a bump is the right thing to do here (I say, after I waited for the pve-version series
to be applied for making this v8).

Doing so would break custom CPUs on older machine versions (since I'd have to pin it to 4.1~pve2) for no reason. The idea would have been to show a neat error message, but since up to this point we didn't even check the pve-version on migration, it wouldn't help much. Besides, migration to older versions already fails cleanly with a semi-readable message ('Unknown option: force-cpu').


< see [2] for older history >


[0]: https://pve.proxmox.com/pipermail/pve-devel/2019-July/038268.html
[1]: e.g.:
cpu-model: custom-cpu-name
     host-phys-bits 1
     flags +aes;+avx;+avx2
     reported-model kvm64
[2] https://pve.proxmox.com/pipermail/pve-devel/2020-January/041278.html


qemu-server: Stefan Reiter (8):
   Adapt CPUConfig to handle custom models
   Verify VM-specific CPU configs seperately
   Include "-cpu" parameter with live-migration
   Include "-cpu" parameter with snapshots/suspend
   Add helpers to better structure CPU option handling
   Rework get_cpu_options and allow custom CPU models
   fix #2318: allow phys-bits and host-phys-bits CPU settings
   cfg2cmd: add test cases for custom CPU models

  PVE/API2/Qemu.pm                              |  10 +-
  PVE/QemuConfig.pm                             |  36 +-
  PVE/QemuMigrate.pm                            |  22 +
  PVE/QemuServer.pm                             |  44 +-
  PVE/QemuServer/CPUConfig.pm                   | 477 +++++++++++++++---
  test/cfg2cmd/custom-cpu-model-defaults.conf   |   8 +
  .../custom-cpu-model-defaults.conf.cmd        |  24 +
  test/cfg2cmd/custom-cpu-model.conf            |   8 +
  test/cfg2cmd/custom-cpu-model.conf.cmd        |  27 +
  test/cfg2cmd/i440fx-win10-hostpci.conf.cmd    |   2 +-
  test/cfg2cmd/minimal-defaults.conf.cmd        |   2 +-
  test/cfg2cmd/pinned-version.conf.cmd          |   2 +-
  .../q35-linux-hostpci-multifunction.conf.cmd  |   2 +-
  test/cfg2cmd/q35-linux-hostpci.conf.cmd       |   2 +-
  test/cfg2cmd/q35-win10-hostpci.conf.cmd       |   2 +-
  test/cfg2cmd/simple1.conf.cmd                 |   2 +-
  test/cfg2cmd/spice-enhancments.conf.cmd       |   2 +-
  test/cfg2cmd/spice-linux-4.1.conf.cmd         |   2 +-
  test/cfg2cmd/spice-usb3.conf.cmd              |   2 +-
  test/cfg2cmd/spice-win.conf.cmd               |   2 +-
  test/run_config2command_tests.pl              |  23 +
  21 files changed, 609 insertions(+), 92 deletions(-)
  create mode 100644 test/cfg2cmd/custom-cpu-model-defaults.conf
  create mode 100644 test/cfg2cmd/custom-cpu-model-defaults.conf.cmd
  create mode 100644 test/cfg2cmd/custom-cpu-model.conf
  create mode 100644 test/cfg2cmd/custom-cpu-model.conf.cmd






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