Re: [PATCH] Use qemu-kvm as installation name

[Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>]

Avi Kivity wrote:
> 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.


Wouldn't your scripts simply run qemu-system-x86_64 from the build
directory? The patch only affects make install for exactly that reason.
And at least from a distro perspective, symlinking qemu-kvm to
qemu-system-x86_64 when things get stable in upstream qemu sounds fairly
easy :-).

Alex