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From: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
To: Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com>,
	Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>,
	qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Cole Robinson <crobinso@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] define qemukvm-1.2 machine type
Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2012 15:35:03 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <878v91ab5k.fsf@codemonkey.ws> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20121213212501.GE5334@otherpad.lan.raisama.net>

Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com> writes:

> On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 09:35:13AM +0100, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
>> Il 12/12/2012 23:39, Marcelo Tosatti ha scritto:
>> > 
>> > To allow migration from qemu-kvm-1.2, where cirrus device has 16 megabytes
>> > of RAM.
>> > 
>> > Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
>> 
>> A similar patch would be needed for all machine types though, no?
>> 
>> I think distros that used to ship qemu-kvm should just change the
>> default just like for the acpi_piix4.c change.
>
> Maybe we could provide a --with-qemu-kvm-compat configure flag to
> them?

I think that defeats the purpose of a single binary.

I think it would be better for the distros to have a qemu-kvm script
that was:

/usr/libexec/qemu-kvm:

#!/bin/sh

qemu-system-x86_64 -enable-qemu-kvm-compat "$@"

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

>
> -- 
> Eduardo

  reply	other threads:[~2012-12-13 21:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-12-12 22:39 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] define qemukvm-1.2 machine type Marcelo Tosatti
2012-12-13  8:35 ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-12-13 20:29   ` Marcelo Tosatti
2012-12-13 21:25   ` Eduardo Habkost
2012-12-13 21:35     ` Anthony Liguori [this message]
2012-12-13 21:41       ` Eduardo Habkost
2012-12-14  7:54         ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-12-14 13:29           ` Anthony Liguori
2012-12-14 13:46             ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-12-13 21:15 ` Anthony Liguori
2013-01-15  3:45 ` Cole Robinson
2013-01-15 16:29   ` Paolo Bonzini
2013-01-16 23:17     ` Cole Robinson
2013-01-18 12:12       ` Marcelo Tosatti
2013-01-18 17:04         ` Cole Robinson
2013-01-18 17:34           ` Paolo Bonzini
2013-01-18 20:09             ` Marcelo Tosatti
2013-01-19 14:17               ` Paolo Bonzini
2013-01-18 19:50           ` Marcelo Tosatti

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