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From: Adam Carter <adamcarter3@×××××.com>
To: Gentoo User <gentoo-user@l.g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Running old RHEL as a VM on Ryzen
Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2021 07:29:52
Message-Id: CAC=wYCG-3sag7E-5nzM3JoRq9aVEYhcUmOYuKaeg6D-tg0xsRA@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Running old RHEL as a VM on Ryzen by Michael
1 >
2 > > Ok i see 3.10 was released 2013-06-30, so looking for a cpu released the
3 > > previous year, say
4 > > IvyBridge, IvyBridge-IBR Intel Xeon E3-12xx v2 (Ivy Bridge, 2012)
5 > >
6 > > and $ qemu-system-x86_64 -cpu ? | grep -i ivy
7 > > x86 IvyBridge (alias configured by machine type)
8 > >
9 > > x86 IvyBridge-IBRS (alias of IvyBridge-v2)
10 > >
11 > > x86 IvyBridge-v1 Intel Xeon E3-12xx v2 (Ivy Bridge)
12 > >
13 > > x86 IvyBridge-v2 Intel Xeon E3-12xx v2 (Ivy Bridge, IBRS)
14 > >
15 > >
16 > > So if I run the following then RHEL will think it's running on an
17 > IvyBridge
18 > > cpu, right?
19 > > $ qemu-system-x86_64 -cpu 'x86 IvyBridge-v1' etc
20 >
21 > Try:
22 >
23 > qemu-system-x86_64 -cpu IvyBridge-v1 ...
24 >
25 > The x86 part is to indicate the arch only, not meant to be included in the
26 > stanza.
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29 Thanks - it's working. I had to go back one generation earlier to
30 'SandyBridge' as IvyBridge couldn't be used due to Ryzen missing the erms
31 instruction.