When trying to launch a Centos6.5 VM (pulled from ovirt-image-repository) onto a Westmere (Dell 6100) host through oVirt, the following error occurs from libvirt:
3312: warning : x86Decode:1517 : Preferred CPU model Westmere not allowed by hypervisor; closest supported model will be used 3312: error : x86Decode:1573 : internal error: Cannot find suitable CPU model for given data
Googling the issue yeilds: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=804224 System info as Virsh sees it. $virsh capabilities <capabilities> <host> <uuid>6622b24b-5019-4644-af20-289533f0a7bc</uuid> <cpu> <arch>x86_64</arch> <model>Westmere</model> <vendor>Intel</vendor> CPUs qemu-kvm supports. $/usr/libexec/qemu-kvm -cpu "?" -nodefconfig x86 Opteron_G5 AMD Opteron 63xx class CPU x86 Opteron_G4 AMD Opteron 62xx class CPU x86 Opteron_G3 AMD Opteron 23xx (Gen 3 Class Opteron) x86 Opteron_G2 AMD Opteron 22xx (Gen 2 Class Opteron) x86 Opteron_G1 AMD Opteron 240 (Gen 1 Class Opteron) x86 Haswell Intel Core Processor (Haswell) x86 SandyBridge Intel Xeon E312xx (Sandy Bridge) x86 Westmere Westmere E56xx/L56xx/X56xx (Nehalem-C) x86 Nehalem Intel Core i7 9xx (Nehalem Class Core i7) x86 Penryn Intel Core 2 Duo P9xxx (Penryn Class Core 2) x86 Conroe Intel Celeron_4x0 (Conroe/Merom Class Core 2) x86 cpu64-rhel5 QEMU Virtual CPU version (cpu64-rhel5) x86 cpu64-rhel6 QEMU Virtual CPU version (cpu64-rhel6) x86 n270 Intel(R) Atom(TM) CPU N270 @ 1.60GHz x86 athlon QEMU Virtual CPU version 0.12.1 x86 pentium3 x86 pentium2 x86 pentium x86 486 x86 coreduo Genuine Intel(R) CPU T2600 @ 2.16GHz x86 qemu32 QEMU Virtual CPU version 0.12.1 x86 kvm64 Common KVM processor x86 core2duo Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU T7700 @ 2.40GHz x86 phenom AMD Phenom(tm) 9550 Quad-Core Processor x86 qemu64 QEMU Virtual CPU version 0.12.1 CPU model name from /proc/cpu Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU X5660 @ 2.80GHz _______________________________________________ Users mailing list Users@ovirt.org http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users