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Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2009 14:04:02 -0500
From: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] add --accel option
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To: Paul Brook <paul@codesourcery.com>
Cc: Glauber Costa <glommer@redhat.com>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org

Paul Brook wrote:
> On Tuesday 28 July 2009, Glauber Costa wrote:
>   
>> 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.
>>     
>
> Having two options do the same thing seems wrong. IMO at least one of them 
> should be deprecated and documented as a backward compatibility alias.
>   

Yup.  --enable-kvm/--enable-kqemu/--kernel-kqemu should all be 
deprecated and documented as such.

-- 
Regards,

Anthony Liguori