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Bug 1701800

Summary: [POWER]The cpu fallback changed after restart libvirtd
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Reporter: Junxiang Li <junli>
Component: libvirtAssignee: Libvirt Maintainers <libvirt-maint>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact: Virtualization Bugs <virt-bugs>
Severity: medium Docs Contact:
Priority: medium    
Version: 7.7CC: abologna, dzheng, haizhao, jsuchane, knoel, rbalakri, yalzhang
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Hardware: ppc64le   
OS: Linux   
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Description Junxiang Li 2019-04-22 01:46:39 UTC
+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #1660711 +++

Description of problem:
The cpu model fallback changed after restart libvirtd

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
# rpm -q qemu-kvm libvirt
qemu-kvm-2.12.0-44.module+el8+2259+6d80f0a6.ppc64le
libvirt-4.5.0-14.module+el8+2210+474b8474.ppc64le

How reproducible:
100%

Steps to Reproduce:
1.
Prepare a guest with the cpu model element.
<cpu mode='host-model' check='partial'>
    <model fallback='forbid'>power9</model>
</cpu>
2.
Start the guest and check the guest xml
virsh start test
virsh dumpxml test
The fallback is forbid now
3.
Restart libvirtd and check the guest xml
systemctl restart libvirtd
virsh dumpxml test
The fallback is changed to allow now

Actual results:
The fallback is changed

Expected results:
The fallback should not be changed

Additional info:
Could  be reproduced on POWER8/9, could not be reproduced on x86_64

Comment 3 Junxiang Li 2019-04-22 01:47:54 UTC
Reproduce with libvirt-4.5.0-12.virtcov.el7.ppc64le in RHEL-7.7

Comment 4 Jaroslav Suchanek 2019-04-24 11:32:08 UTC
Lets deal with this in next major version.