Re: Which kernel version meet the needs, when run QEMU 5.1 on kunpeng 920 ARM serever?

[linwei6]

On Wed, 2020-05-20 at 11:10 -0500, Sid Spry wrote:
> On Wed, May 20, 2020, at 3:11 AM, address@hidden wrote:
> > How can I figure out which kernel version will meet the needs if I
> > am
> > using Qemu 5.x on huawei KunPeng 920 ARM server, which will fully
> > use
> > the hardware supported feature on this kind of server?
> > 
> > Is there any basic mathod out there to quickly find out?
> > 
> 
> What do you mean by features? If you mean CPU virtualization
> features, -machine accel=kvm and -cpu host will enable everything
> that can be enabled.
> 
> Hardware devices need to be explicitly passed in.
> 
> If you use a modern distribution's kernel it will have modules for
> all qemu devices available by default.
> 

Hardware features which I mean is something like VHE, SMMU, GICv3(may
be GICv4) etc. Are these all enable and can neatly support on the
kernel version 4.14(Centos7 aarch64) and can be utilize by my virtual
machine, should I try the latest version kernel 5.x, is that necessary?