Re: [PATCH] KVM: X86: Allow userspace to define the microcode version

From: Paolo Bonzini
Date: Tue Apr 24 2018 - 01:09:13 EST


On 24/04/2018 05:14, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
> You would need to include the microcode version in the migration stream.
>
> But this brings another point - what if we want to manifest certain
> new CPUID bits?

You don't do that across migration. Generally if you want to do live
migration and you set up the guest to know everything about the host
(down to the microcode level), you should make sure your host are pretty
much identical.

Paolo