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From: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
To: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org, anthony@codemonkey.ws
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Use qemu-kvm as installation name
Date: Thu, 05 Feb 2009 17:44:31 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <498B095F.9080502@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1232726884-14747-1-git-send-email-agraf@suse.de>

Alexander Graf wrote:
> Most distributions use an executable name of qemu-kvm for kvm's
> qemu version.
> This is mostly because Qemu was there before and there usually is
> a package with a binary called qemu-system-x86_64 already.
>
> In order to not confuse people why distributions do things so
> differently from upstream, let's call the binary qemu-kvm in make
> install, so it's always qemu-kvm.
>
> Inspired by Anthony.
>   

While it does make sense, this will break a ton of existing scripts (and 
my testsuite...).  Also, upsteam qemu also does not rename qemu even 
when kvm support is enabled.


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error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function


  reply	other threads:[~2009-02-05 15:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-01-23 16:08 [PATCH] Use qemu-kvm as installation name Alexander Graf
2009-02-05 15:44 ` Avi Kivity [this message]
2009-02-05 16:05   ` Alexander Graf

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