On Sat, Jun 17, 2017 at 05:25:18PM +0000, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote: > Hi, > > I was told [1] that /usr/bin/qemu-kvm is obsolete, and that the right > thing is to use 'qemu-system-x86_64 -enable-kvm', and that Arch and > Gentoo and qemu upstream don't support /usr/bin/qemu-kvm. Fedora provides > /usr/bin/qemu-kvm as a shell wrapper on amd64 and i386 architectures. > > My questions are: > 1. do we plan to keep this wrapper indefinitely? Probably, since there's plenty of installs from older Fedora that reference that path. > 2. wouldn't it make sense to convince upstream to provide /usr/bin/qemu-kvm > which would mean "provide accelerated emulation of current architecture"? > > Non-accelerated qemu is unusable for many purposes..., and often you > just want the current architecture, so it'd be nice to have a shortcut > for that. The way you configure QEMU for different architectures varies considerably, so having a consistent binary doesn't really simply things to any great degree, as you still have to know alot of architecture specific things to provide a good configuration. Tools like virt-install give a way to setup guests in a simpler manner while hiding most of the architecture specific differences, as well as defaulting to using KVM. Regards, Daniel -- |: https://berrange.com -o- https://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange :| |: https://libvirt.org -o- https://fstop138.berrange.com :| |: https://entangle-photo.org -o- https://www.instagram.com/dberrange :| _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
