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Anthony Liguori schrieb:
> Aurelien Jarno wrote:
>> For historical reasons, qemu system on i386 is called qemu instead of
>> qemu-system-i386. This seems to confuse users.
>>
>> This patch installs it as qemu-system-i386, and create a compatibility
>> symlink qemu -> qemu-system-i386 as some tools may call it that way.
>> We can change or remove this symlink after a few releases when all the
>> tools have migrated to this new name.
>>   
>
> I agree.
>
> Regards,
>
> Anthony Liguori
>
I agree partially.

For the current situation, qemu-system-i386 is reasonable,
and a symbolic link to qemu for non-Windows platforms is
a good solution.

For the (maybe far) future, I'd prefer to have a qemu executable
which is either a frontend to the different user and system
emulation executables or which replaces all these executables.

This new qemu could auto-detect the target architecture
from -M (cpu parameter) or from ELF file argument.
It could also auto-detect user or system mode.
Calling the correct backend qemu-xxx is then straight forward.

And finally, keeping qemu (with enhanced functionality)
would also allow to keep the existing documentation unchanged:
qemu-doc.texi has lots of references to qemu!

Regards,

Stefan Weil