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Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2009 12:46:35 -0300
From: Glauber Costa <glommer@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] add --accel option
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To: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Cc: aliguori@us.ibm.com, qemu-devel@nongnu.org

On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 10:16:28AM +0200, Kevin Wolf wrote:
> Glauber Costa schrieb:
> > Since libvirt dudes seem to prefer it, add a --accel option. For now,
> > it only does the same as --enable-kvm, but it can easily be extended
> > in the future. It also accepts "none" and "kqemu" options.
> 
> The documentation should include which values are valid for the option.
> Guessing that the syntax is -accel kvm is probably possible, but for
> -accel kqemu,mode=kernel it's definitely hard.
right now kqemu needs an extra argument.

But very soon kvm will need it too. Like for example controlling knobs
like kvm-irqchip and kvm-pit. So maybe we want a standard way of passing
arguments for all accels?

How about --accel foo,args=bar,bar,bar with the args part being optional ?

An exampel would be --accel kvm,args=userpit,userirqchip (assuming we want the
default to be in the kernel)

Otherwise we're stuck with an evergrowing combination to support