From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:58881) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TIgml-00024m-Nn for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 01 Oct 2012 10:16:01 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TIgme-0005GB-R4 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 01 Oct 2012 10:15:51 -0400 Received: from youngberry.canonical.com ([91.189.89.112]:37855) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TIgme-0005Fx-K7 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 01 Oct 2012 10:15:44 -0400 Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2012 09:15:26 -0500 From: Serge Hallyn Message-ID: <20121001141526.GA6250@sergelap> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] qemu-kvm: remove "boot=on|off" drive parameter compatibility (fwd) List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Anthony Liguori Cc: kvm , Scott Moser , Jan Kiszka , Marcelo Tosatti , Michael Tokarev , qemu-devel , Cole Robinson , Andreas =?iso-8859-1?Q?F=E4rber?= We (Ubuntu) plan to switch to qemu in the next release which opens in November. I suppose there's likely to be a hiccough or two, but I can't think of any offhand. -serge Quoting Scott Moser (smoser@ubuntu.com): > you should have been added here. > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2012 09:19:29 > From: Anthony Liguori > To: Jan Kiszka , Marcelo Tosatti > Cc: kvm , qemu-devel , > Cole Robinson , Scott Moser , > Andreas Färber , Michael Tokarev > Subject: Re: qemu-kvm: remove "boot=on|off" drive parameter compatibility > > Jan Kiszka writes: > > > On 2012-10-01 11:31, Marcelo Tosatti wrote: > > > > It's not just about default configs. We need to validate if the > > migration formats are truly compatible (qemu-kvm -> QEMU, the other way > > around definitely not). For the command line switches, we could provide > > a wrapper script that translates them into upstream format or simply > > ignores them. That should be harmless to carry upstream. > > qemu-kvm has: > > -no-kvm > -no-kvm-irqchip > -no-kvm-pit > -no-kvm-pit-reinjection > -tdf <- does nothing > > There are replacements for all of the above. If we need to add them to > qemu.git, it's not big deal to add them. > > -drive ...,boot= <- this is ignored > > cpu_set command for CPU hotplug which is known broken in qemu-kvm. > > testdev which is nice but only used for development > > Default nic is rtl8139 vs. e1000. > > Some logic to move change the default VGA ram size to 16mb for pc-1.2 > (QEMU uses 16mb by default now too). > > I think at this point, none of this matters but I added the various > distro maintainers to the thread. > > I think it's time for the distros to drop qemu-kvm and just ship > qemu.git. Is there anything else that needs to happen to make that > switch? > > Regards, > > Anthony Liguori > > > > > But I would really stop worrying about the qemu-kvm code base. > > > > Jan > > > > -- > > Siemens AG, Corporate Technology, CT RTC ITP SDP-DE > > Corporate Competence Center Embedded Linux > > -- > > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in > > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html