[virt-manager PATCH v2] cli: add 'ioapic.driver' to --features

Cole Robinson crobinso at redhat.com
Tue Jan 11 23:31:05 UTC 2022


On 1/11/22 12:21 PM, Jonathon Jongsma wrote:
> Add the ability to set the ioapic driver using the --features argument:
> 
>     $ virt-install --features ioapic.driver=qemu ...
> 
> This results in the following xml:
> 
>   <features>
>     ...
>     <ioapic driver="qemu"/>
>   </features>
> 
> This is required in order to install a guest with >255 cpus. Such a
> configuration requires an iommu with extended interrupt mode enabled,
> which in turn requires IOMMU interrupt remapping to be enabled, which in
> turn requires a split I/O APIC.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jonathon Jongsma <jjongsma at redhat.com>
> ---
> 
> Not sure how I missed the cli test.
> 
> I wasn't quite sure where to add the option, but just added it to an existing
> test that was already excercising most of the features. Hopefully that's
> sufficient? It silences the test failure.
> 

Yup, that's typically what I do too

Thanks, pushed now

- Cole




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