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To: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>, Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>, "Michael S.Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>


On 12/21/2009 05:05 AM, Avi Kivity wrote:
> On 12/21/2009 01:45 PM, Alexander Graf wrote:
>>
>> Well, we have two groups:
>>
>> 1) Casual user w/o management app
>> 2) Enterprise user w/ management app
>>
>> So I clearly belong to the first group.
>>    
> 
> 3) Developer/power user who knows what he's about.
> 
> You could simply add -cpu qemu64 for those guests that care about it.
> 

4) embedded virtualization where the use of a management app provides
little to no added benefit and everything has to be
"automated" (ie., no user).

My point is there are other use cases besides data center deployments
(aka enterprise) and workstation (casual/power user). There are use
cases where virtualization is just yet another tool to achieve a product.

David