Re: [RFC PATCH 0/3] Deprecate the qemu-system-i386 binary

[Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>]

On 27/04/2023 10.33, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 27, 2023 at 10:31:00AM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
>> On Thu, Apr 27, 2023 at 10:28 AM Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com> wrote:
>>>> I wonder if we should take this a step further and rename qemu-system-x86_64
>>>> to qemu-system-x86!  Distros can if they wish create symlinks to both
>>>> qemu-system-i386 and qemu-system-x86_64.
>>>
>>> I can't help feeling this just creates a new upgrade burden for distros
>>> for no obvious win.
>>
>> We can create the symlinks on install as well during the deprecation
>> period. It doesn't have to be done by distros.
> 
> What's the actual win though ?  Why would anyone want to create guests
> using qemu-system-x86, if both qemu-system-i386 / qemu-system-x86_64
> still exist indefinitely for backwards compat.

We could deprecate the old wrappers at one point in time, so we would 
finally have a cleaner interface.

>  What does having a
> qemu-system-x86 add that can't be achieve just though hardlink
> between the two existing binaries ?

We'd finally have a binary with saner default settings compared to the 
backlevel "pc" machine type that we have as a default now?

  Thomas