Wainer dos Santos Moschetta 8b272e0018 python/qemu: Move kvm_available() to its own module
This creates the 'accel' Python module to be the home for
utilities that deal with accelerators. Also moved kvm_available()
from __init__.py to this new module.

Signed-off-by: Wainer dos Santos Moschetta <wainersm@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20191216191438.93418-2-wainersm@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Cleber Rosa <crosa@redhat.com>
2019-12-16 18:24:02 -05:00

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"""
QEMU accel module:
This module provides utilities for discover and check the availability of
accelerators.
"""
# Copyright (C) 2015-2016 Red Hat Inc.
# Copyright (C) 2012 IBM Corp.
#
# Authors:
# Fam Zheng <famz@redhat.com>
#
# This work is licensed under the terms of the GNU GPL, version 2. See
# the COPYING file in the top-level directory.
#
import os
# Mapping host architecture to any additional architectures it can
# support which often includes its 32 bit cousin.
ADDITIONAL_ARCHES = {
"x86_64" : "i386",
"aarch64" : "armhf"
}
def kvm_available(target_arch=None):
host_arch = os.uname()[4]
if target_arch and target_arch != host_arch:
if target_arch != ADDITIONAL_ARCHES.get(host_arch):
return False
return os.access("/dev/kvm", os.R_OK | os.W_OK)