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From: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: qemu-kvm: remove "boot=on|off" drive parameter compatibility
Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2012 06:31:02 -0300
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On Mon, Oct 01, 2012 at 10:05:21AM +0200, Jan Kiszka wrote:
> On 2012-09-30 21:11, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
> > 
> > Option is deprecated and warning has been in place for one year.
> 
> Do we really care about such cosmetics? 

We care about removing qemu-kvm to null.

> What is the big plan for
> qemu-kvm now? For 1.3 and then beyond?

I suggested this: provide a configuration file (and proper guide on
how to use it on announce email) to be shipped with qemu 1.3.0.

That is:

"For compatibility with qemu-kvm 1.2.0, use

qemu-system-x86_64 -config /usr/share/qemu/qemu-kvm-1.2-compat.opt"

This would work for rtl8139-as-default, vga-ram-size differences.

And drop all command line option compatibility (which can be easily fixed 
by an administrator/end user).

Comments?