Re: [BUG?] qemuu only built with i386-softmmu

[Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>]

On Fri, 2016-02-05 at 20:57 +1100, Steven Haigh wrote:
> 
> > On thing I was sure on (so didn't write) is whether the second
> > paragraph
> > could have an extra sentence:
> > 
> >     If you are using a distro supplied QEMU then the qemu-system-x86_64
> >     could also be used, but it makes no practical difference to the
> >     functionality of the system.
> > 
> > I wasn't sure if that was true (I suspect it is) and in any case I
> > think
> > various bits of libxl etc will look for qemu-system-i386 in various
> > paths
> > so a user would need to try reasonably hard to do so by giving an
> > explicit
> > path and there is no real reason to do so maybe better not to muddy the
> > waters?
> 
> Maybe go along the lines of:
> 
> "There is no practical difference between qemu-system-i386 and
> qemu-system-x86_64 therefore both can be interchanged freely."

Thanks, this is a good wording if it is indeed true (I'll wait for
confirmation of that before I write it on the wiki).

Ian.

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