Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: Disabling kqemu by default at runtime for 0.11

[Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>]

Paul Brook wrote:
> On Thursday 09 July 2009, Anthony Liguori wrote:
>   
>> We've talked about this at length but I'd like to pull the trigger.  The
>> user-visible change would be that -enable-kqemu would be required to
>> explicitly request kqemu support instead of enabling it by default.
>> kqemu would still be enabled by default at build time.
>>
>> Do you object to this Paul?
>>     
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> i have no objection to disabling kqemu by default *at runtime*. This would 
> make it the same as kvm.
>
> On principle I object to having code that is disabled by default at configure 
> time. IMO that code should either be removed or fixed. If we were to disable 
> kqemu at configure time for 0.11 then I would expect to remove the code from 
> trunk shortly after 0.11 was released.
>   

I've left kqemu enabled in the build but just defaulted it to off at 
runtime.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

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