From: "Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange@redhat.com>
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] make /usr/bin/qemu the native arch
Date: Sun, 8 Jul 2007 17:35:50 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070708163550.GA11527@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070708122102.GA16291@aragorn>
On Sun, Jul 08, 2007 at 02:21:02PM +0200, Robert Millan wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Shouldn't /usr/bin/qemu be an alias for qemu-system-$(ARCH), where $(ARCH) is
> the native architecture? Defaulting to i386 doesn't make much sense nowadays,
> specially since x86_64 is gradually obsoleting it.
Management tools for QEMU will have come to rely on existing semantics of
/usr/bin/qemu being i386. Changing this for merely cosmetic reasons would
cause significant technical complications because tools would then have to
try and detect whether /usr/bin/qemu were native or i386. Thus I see no
real functional/technical benefit to changing it, and plenty of downside.
Dan.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-07-08 16:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-07-08 12:21 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] make /usr/bin/qemu the native arch Robert Millan
2007-07-08 16:35 ` Daniel P. Berrange [this message]
2007-07-08 17:04 ` Ricardo Almeida
2007-07-08 20:16 ` Daniel P. Berrange
2007-07-11 18:54 ` andrzej zaborowski
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2007-08-01 19:53 Robert Millan
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