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From: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
To: Glauber Costa <glommer@redhat.com>
Cc: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>,
	Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>,
	"kvm@vger.kernel.org" <kvm@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] exit if we fail to initialize kvm
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2009 18:52:31 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A70703F.6070400@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090729155044.GE4776@poweredge.glommer>

On 07/29/2009 06:50 PM, Glauber Costa wrote:While I do understand the 
value of backwards compatibility, we did change
> behaviour of a number of things in the past. Example: "qemu" would print a help message,
> and now it runs without any disks. It changed people's script already.
>    

There's a huge difference in those two cases.  I don't want people's 
guests to silently lose 90% of their performance.

> It should probably be okay to drop all kvm,kqemu,whatever-related options in favour
> of accel if we are doing this in a release boundary.

Maintaining some backward compatibility is helpful.

-- 
error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function


      reply	other threads:[~2009-07-29 15:52 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
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 [this message]

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