From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Serge Hallyn Subject: Re: qemu-kvm: remove "boot=on|off" drive parameter compatibility (fwd) Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2012 09:15:26 -0500 Message-ID: <20121001141526.GA6250@sergelap> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: Jan Kiszka , Marcelo Tosatti , kvm , qemu-devel , Cole Robinson , Scott Moser , Andreas =?iso-8859-1?Q?F=E4rber?= , Michael Tokarev To: Anthony Liguori Return-path: Received: from youngberry.canonical.com ([91.189.89.112]:36542 "EHLO youngberry.canonical.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750888Ab2JAOPm (ORCPT ); Mon, 1 Oct 2012 10:15:42 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: We (Ubuntu) plan to switch to qemu in the next release which opens in November. I suppose there's likely to be a hiccough or two, but I can'= t think of any offhand. -serge Quoting Scott Moser (smoser@ubuntu.com): > you should have been added here. >=20 >=20 > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2012 09:19:29 > From: Anthony Liguori > To: Jan Kiszka , Marcelo Tosatti > Cc: kvm , qemu-devel , > Cole Robinson , Scott Moser , > Andreas F=E4rber , Michael Tokarev > Subject: Re: qemu-kvm: remove "boot=3Don|off" drive parameter compati= bility >=20 > Jan Kiszka writes: >=20 > > On 2012-10-01 11:31, Marcelo Tosatti wrote: > > > > It's not just about default configs. We need to validate if the > > migration formats are truly compatible (qemu-kvm -> QEMU, the other= way > > around definitely not). For the command line switches, we could pro= vide > > a wrapper script that translates them into upstream format or simpl= y > > ignores them. That should be harmless to carry upstream. >=20 > qemu-kvm has: >=20 > -no-kvm > -no-kvm-irqchip > -no-kvm-pit > -no-kvm-pit-reinjection > -tdf <- does nothing >=20 > There are replacements for all of the above. If we need to add them = to > qemu.git, it's not big deal to add them. >=20 > -drive ...,boot=3D <- this is ignored >=20 > cpu_set command for CPU hotplug which is known broken in qemu-kvm. >=20 > testdev which is nice but only used for development >=20 > Default nic is rtl8139 vs. e1000. >=20 > Some logic to move change the default VGA ram size to 16mb for pc-1.2 > (QEMU uses 16mb by default now too). >=20 > I think at this point, none of this matters but I added the various > distro maintainers to the thread. >=20 > I think it's time for the distros to drop qemu-kvm and just ship > qemu.git. Is there anything else that needs to happen to make that > switch? >=20 > Regards, >=20 > Anthony Liguori >=20 > > > > But I would really stop worrying about the qemu-kvm code base. > > > > Jan > > > > -- > > Siemens AG, Corporate Technology, CT RTC ITP SDP-DE > > Corporate Competence Center Embedded Linux > > -- > > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in > > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html