Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] make /usr/bin/qemu the native arch

["Ricardo Almeida" <ric.almeida@gmail.com>]

On 7/8/07, Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 08, 2007 at 02:21:02PM +0200, Robert Millan wrote:
> > Shouldn't /usr/bin/qemu be an alias for qemu-system-$(ARCH), where $(ARCH) is
> > the native architecture?  Defaulting to i386 doesn't make much sense nowadays,
> > specially since x86_64 is gradually obsoleting it.
>
> Management tools for QEMU will have come to rely on existing semantics of
> /usr/bin/qemu being i386.

Why?! If they rely on 386 I think they should directly use
qemu-system-i386... If they manage in an architecture independent way
then use the qemu link...

> Changing this for merely cosmetic reasons would

Not cosmetic, logic...

> cause significant technical complications because tools would then have to
> try and detect whether /usr/bin/qemu were native or i386.

See my previous why?! ;)

> Thus I see no
> real functional/technical benefit to changing it, and plenty of downside.

If it's more logic, you have a functional benefit. And for the
downside, I don't see them except for non-logic assumptions ;)

Regards,
Ricardo Almeida