Re: [Qemu-devel] [patch 2/6] Use machine options to emulate -no-kvm-irqchip

Jan Kiszka
2012-10-04T14:30:39Z

On 2012-10-04 16:21, Anthony Liguori wrote:
> -no-kvm should be included too.

Reminds me that we still need to agree on the final default accel strategy.

>
> I just ran across a user that was injecting '-no-kvm-irqchip' in their
> libvirt XML via a custom attribute. It turned out it was to work around
> broken MSI support in their funky guest they were running. It was the
> wrong solution to the problem but they were doing it regardless.
>
> The point is, there are users in the wild using these options. There's
> no reason to remove them if they are trivial to maintain (and they are
> in their current form).

So let's define a consistent policy for them all:
- warn on the command line on use
- avoid adding them to the help or other user documentation
- keep them until we rework the whole command line

Jan

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