From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1I7Zjt-0001e7-1k for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sun, 08 Jul 2007 12:36:01 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1I7Zjs-0001de-E2 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sun, 08 Jul 2007 12:36:00 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1I7Zjs-0001db-7K for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sun, 08 Jul 2007 12:36:00 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1I7Zjr-0001KY-Rh for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sun, 08 Jul 2007 12:36:00 -0400 Received: from int-mx1.corp.redhat.com (int-mx1.corp.redhat.com [172.16.52.254]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id l68GZrBp019315 for ; Sun, 8 Jul 2007 12:35:53 -0400 Received: from file.surrey.redhat.com (file.fab.redhat.com [10.33.63.6]) by int-mx1.corp.redhat.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id l68GZqb5013610 for ; Sun, 8 Jul 2007 12:35:53 -0400 Received: (from berrange@localhost) by file.surrey.redhat.com (8.13.1/8.13.1/Submit) id l68GZo8P013408 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sun, 8 Jul 2007 17:35:50 +0100 Date: Sun, 8 Jul 2007 17:35:50 +0100 From: "Daniel P. Berrange" Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] make /usr/bin/qemu the native arch Message-ID: <20070708163550.GA11527@redhat.com> References: <20070708122102.GA16291@aragorn> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070708122102.GA16291@aragorn> Reply-To: "Daniel P. Berrange" , qemu-devel@nongnu.org List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org On Sun, Jul 08, 2007 at 02:21:02PM +0200, Robert Millan wrote: > > Hi, > > Shouldn't /usr/bin/qemu be an alias for qemu-system-$(ARCH), where $(ARCH) is > the native architecture? Defaulting to i386 doesn't make much sense nowadays, > specially since x86_64 is gradually obsoleting it. Management tools for QEMU will have come to rely on existing semantics of /usr/bin/qemu being i386. Changing this for merely cosmetic reasons would cause significant technical complications because tools would then have to try and detect whether /usr/bin/qemu were native or i386. Thus I see no real functional/technical benefit to changing it, and plenty of downside. Dan. -- |=- Red Hat, Engineering, Emerging Technologies, Boston. +1 978 392 2496 -=| |=- Perl modules: http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ -=| |=- Projects: http://freshmeat.net/~danielpb/ -=| |=- GnuPG: 7D3B9505 F3C9 553F A1DA 4AC2 5648 23C1 B3DF F742 7D3B 9505 -=|