Alexander Graf wrote: > Avi Kivity wrote: >> On 07/29/2009 01:17 PM, Jan Kiszka wrote: >>> I just wonder now if/when qemu-kvm will switch over to the >>> kvm-by-default-off policy of upstream? >>> >> That will surely inconvenience/surprise a lot of users. >> >> A migration path could be: >> >> - add -accel >> - start warning when -accel is not used, encouraging people to use -accel >> - time passes >> - switch default to tcg (maybe unless invoked with kvm in argv[0]) >> - time passes >> - remove warning >> > > I would prefer: > > - add -accel (default to kvm) > - give a message to use -accel tcg when the user wants tcg > - make -accel go kvm,kqemu,tcg in qemu upstream Upstream just dropped the behavior '-accel kqemu,tcg', so I'm not sure if this is desired to return (though I'm surely not comparing kvm to kqemu here). > - have distros / management tools decide which accel they like That's likely the key: explicit -accel. Jan -- Siemens AG, Corporate Technology, CT SE 2 Corporate Competence Center Embedded Linux -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
