From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IGKCu-0000NL-N8 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 01 Aug 2007 15:50:08 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IGKCt-0000Ml-7A for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 01 Aug 2007 15:50:08 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IGKCs-0000Mf-UV for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 01 Aug 2007 15:50:07 -0400 Received: from aybabtu.com ([69.60.117.155]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IGKCr-0005Eo-Sn for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 01 Aug 2007 15:50:06 -0400 Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2007 21:53:29 +0200 From: Robert Millan Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] make /usr/bin/qemu the native arch Message-ID: <20070801195329.GA15711@aragorn> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: 20070708163550.GA11527@redhat.com Reply-To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: berrange@redhat.com Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org > Management tools for QEMU will have come to rely on existing semantics > of /usr/bin/qemu being i386. How about just deprecating it? For example, we could make /usr/bin/qemu be a script with: #!/bin/bash echo "warning: $0 is deprecated, use qemu-system-i386 instead" exec qemu-system-i386 $@ > Changing this for merely cosmetic reasons [...] It's not just cosmetic. I recall you sent me some benchmarks (too bad they didn't make it to the list, and I somehow lost that mail), but they were done on i386 (which remains unaffected). On x86_64, results are different (specially if you have setup kqemu which only works with qemu-system-x86_64). -- Robert Millan My spam trap is honeypot@aybabtu.com. Note: this address is only intended for spam harvesters. Writing to it will get you added to my black list.