[Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH] hook cpu running at a higher level.

[Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>]

Ian Jackson wrote:
> The way we have approached these problems in the Xen tree is to supply
> an alternative implementation of (say) main_loop and arrange for the
> standard one not to be compiled.  Is it the intent to make kvm a
> run-time selectable option ?  It seems to me that that given that we
> already have different qemu builds for all of the various target
> (guest) cpu architectures, it might be simpler to continue that
> approach.  With a bit of judicious movement of code into appropriate
> files, this will avoid the need for ifs and ifdefs.
>   

kvm is run-time selectable, both in upstream and in kvm-userspace.  If 
kvm is not detected (or the caller lacks sufficient privileges), we fall 
back to tcg (of course we'd also like the option of not compiling tcg 
where emulation is unacceptable like server deployments).

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