[Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH] qemu-kvm: Switch to upstream -enable-kvm semantics

[Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>]

On 12/21/2010 05:41 PM, Markus Armbruster wrote:
> Avi Kivity<avi@redhat.com>  writes:
>
> >  On 12/15/2010 07:57 PM, Markus Armbruster wrote:
> >>  >   In the short term, it would be a good idea to modify qemu-kvm to
> >>  >   switch the -enable-kvm semantics to match upstream (fail if KVM isn't
> >>  >   available).
> >>
> >>  That's what my patch does.
> >>
> >>  Additionally, it changes the default to match upstream: KVM disabled.
> >>
> >>  What do you want changed in my patch?
> >
> >  The 'Additionally' bit.  qemu-kvm users rely on the default enabling
> >  kvm.  Likely they don't rely on -enable-kvm failing is kvm is not
> >  available (and indeed, they likely expect it to match upstream).  So
> >  the patch should only change behaviour when -enable-kvm is specified.
>
> Like this?
>
> upstream qemu   |  default  |-enable-kvm
> ----------------+-----------+-----------
> KVM available   | disabled  |  enabled
> KVM unavailable | disabled  |    fail
>
> qemu-kvm        |  default  |-enable-kvm|  -no-kvm
> ----------------+-----------+-----------+-----------
> KVM available   |  enabled* |  enabled  |  disabled
> KVM unavailable | disabled  |    fail   |  disabled
>
> * differs from upstream

Yes.

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