From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com>
Cc: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>,
Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>,
qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Cole Robinson <crobinso@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] define qemukvm-1.2 machine type
Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2012 02:54:40 -0500 (EST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1379550897.23864274.1355471680686.JavaMail.root@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20121213214153.GP3236@otherpad.lan.raisama.net>
> > > > I think distros that used to ship qemu-kvm should just change
> > > > the default just like for the acpi_piix4.c change.
> > >
> > > Maybe we could provide a --with-qemu-kvm-compat configure flag to
> > > them?
I like this.
> > I think that defeats the purpose of a single binary.
> >
> > I think it would be better for the distros to have a qemu-kvm
> > script that was:
> >
> > /usr/libexec/qemu-kvm:
> >
> > #!/bin/sh
> >
> > qemu-system-x86_64 -enable-qemu-kvm-compat "$@"
>
> That would be even better. I proposed a configure flag because I
> understood (maybe incorrectly) that Paolo proposed a build-time
> default change.
Yes, that's what I was thinking. The problem is that Fedora did ship a
qemu-system-x86_64 binary that disabled the qemu-kvm options (including
using TCG by default), but it still had a qemu-kvm-compatible migration
format.
Paolo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-12-14 7:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-12-12 22:39 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] define qemukvm-1.2 machine type Marcelo Tosatti
2012-12-13 8:35 ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-12-13 20:29 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2012-12-13 21:25 ` Eduardo Habkost
2012-12-13 21:35 ` Anthony Liguori
2012-12-13 21:41 ` Eduardo Habkost
2012-12-14 7:54 ` Paolo Bonzini [this message]
2012-12-14 13:29 ` Anthony Liguori
2012-12-14 13:46 ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-12-13 21:15 ` Anthony Liguori
2013-01-15 3:45 ` Cole Robinson
2013-01-15 16:29 ` Paolo Bonzini
2013-01-16 23:17 ` Cole Robinson
2013-01-18 12:12 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2013-01-18 17:04 ` Cole Robinson
2013-01-18 17:34 ` Paolo Bonzini
2013-01-18 20:09 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2013-01-19 14:17 ` Paolo Bonzini
2013-01-18 19:50 ` Marcelo Tosatti
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