From: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
To: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>,
Glauber Costa <glommer@redhat.com>,
"kvm@vger.kernel.org" <kvm@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] exit if we fail to initialize kvm
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2009 14:28:27 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A70406B.3050000@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4A703767.6050301@redhat.com>
Avi Kivity wrote:
> On 07/29/2009 01:17 PM, Jan Kiszka wrote:
>> I just wonder now if/when qemu-kvm will switch over to the
>> kvm-by-default-off policy of upstream?
>>
>
> That will surely inconvenience/surprise a lot of users.
>
> A migration path could be:
>
> - add -accel
> - start warning when -accel is not used, encouraging people to use -accel
> - time passes
> - switch default to tcg (maybe unless invoked with kvm in argv[0])
> - time passes
> - remove warning
>
I would prefer:
- add -accel (default to kvm)
- give a message to use -accel tcg when the user wants tcg
- make -accel go kvm,kqemu,tcg in qemu upstream
- have distros / management tools decide which accel they like
Alex
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-07-29 12:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-07-28 20:52 [PATCH] exit if we fail to initialize kvm Glauber Costa
2009-07-28 21:12 ` Alexander Graf
2009-07-28 21:15 ` Alexander Graf
2009-07-28 21:28 ` Glauber Costa
2009-07-28 21:38 ` Alexander Graf
2009-07-28 22:12 ` Alexander Graf
2009-07-29 10:17 ` Jan Kiszka
2009-07-29 11:49 ` Avi Kivity
2009-07-29 12:28 ` Alexander Graf [this message]
2009-07-29 12:47 ` Avi Kivity
2009-07-29 14:43 ` Jan Kiszka
2009-07-29 15:50 ` Glauber Costa
2009-07-29 15:52 ` Avi Kivity
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