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From: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
To: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: kvm <kvm@vger.kernel.org>, "Scott Moser" <smoser@ubuntu.com>,
	"Marcelo Tosatti" <mtosatti@redhat.com>,
	"Michael Tokarev" <mjt@tls.msk.ru>,
	qemu-devel <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>,
	"Anthony Liguori" <anthony@codemonkey.ws>,
	"Cole Robinson" <crobinso@redhat.com>,
	"Andreas Färber" <afaerber@suse.de>
Subject: Re: qemu-kvm: remove "boot=on|off" drive parameter compatibility
Date: Mon, 01 Oct 2012 15:46:04 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <50699E9C.8020205@siemens.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <50699CDC.1010604@redhat.com>

On 2012-10-01 15:38, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> Il 01/10/2012 15:19, Anthony Liguori ha scritto:
>> I think it's time for the distros to drop qemu-kvm and just ship
>> qemu.git.  Is there anything else that needs to happen to make that
>> switch?
> 
> Perhaps change the default to -machine accel=kvm:tcg?

That's the old discussion again: This way we generate that "silent
failure" (unless you monitor the console output), where users will
complain that "QEMU is so slow" because something is blocking KVM. Maybe
the risk for the latter is lower these days as modules are auto-loaded
now, don't know.

Jan

-- 
Siemens AG, Corporate Technology, CT RTC ITP SDP-DE
Corporate Competence Center Embedded Linux

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From: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
To: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: kvm <kvm@vger.kernel.org>, "Scott Moser" <smoser@ubuntu.com>,
	"Marcelo Tosatti" <mtosatti@redhat.com>,
	"Michael Tokarev" <mjt@tls.msk.ru>,
	qemu-devel <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>,
	"Anthony Liguori" <anthony@codemonkey.ws>,
	"Cole Robinson" <crobinso@redhat.com>,
	"Andreas Färber" <afaerber@suse.de>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] qemu-kvm: remove "boot=on|off" drive parameter compatibility
Date: Mon, 01 Oct 2012 15:46:04 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <50699E9C.8020205@siemens.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <50699CDC.1010604@redhat.com>

On 2012-10-01 15:38, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> Il 01/10/2012 15:19, Anthony Liguori ha scritto:
>> I think it's time for the distros to drop qemu-kvm and just ship
>> qemu.git.  Is there anything else that needs to happen to make that
>> switch?
> 
> Perhaps change the default to -machine accel=kvm:tcg?

That's the old discussion again: This way we generate that "silent
failure" (unless you monitor the console output), where users will
complain that "QEMU is so slow" because something is blocking KVM. Maybe
the risk for the latter is lower these days as modules are auto-loaded
now, don't know.

Jan

-- 
Siemens AG, Corporate Technology, CT RTC ITP SDP-DE
Corporate Competence Center Embedded Linux

  reply	other threads:[~2012-10-01 13:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 97+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-09-30 19:11 qemu-kvm: remove "boot=on|off" drive parameter compatibility Marcelo Tosatti
2012-10-01  1:02 ` Amos Kong
2012-10-01  8:05 ` Jan Kiszka
2012-10-01  9:31   ` Marcelo Tosatti
2012-10-01 10:21     ` Jan Kiszka
2012-10-01 13:03       ` Marcelo Tosatti
2012-10-01 13:14         ` Jan Kiszka
2012-10-01 13:19       ` Anthony Liguori
2012-10-01 13:19         ` [Qemu-devel] " Anthony Liguori
2012-10-01 13:26         ` Jan Kiszka
2012-10-01 13:26           ` [Qemu-devel] " Jan Kiszka
2012-10-03  9:55           ` Gleb Natapov
2012-10-03  9:55             ` Gleb Natapov
2012-10-03 10:06             ` Jan Kiszka
2012-10-03 10:06               ` Jan Kiszka
2012-10-03 10:11               ` Gleb Natapov
2012-10-03 10:11                 ` Gleb Natapov
2012-10-03 10:57             ` Lucas Meneghel Rodrigues
2012-10-03 10:57               ` [Qemu-devel] " Lucas Meneghel Rodrigues
2012-10-03 13:19               ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-10-03 13:19                 ` [Qemu-devel] " Paolo Bonzini
2012-10-03 13:27                 ` Gleb Natapov
2012-10-03 13:27                   ` [Qemu-devel] " Gleb Natapov
2012-10-04 10:48                 ` Jan Kiszka
2012-10-04 10:48                   ` [Qemu-devel] " Jan Kiszka
2012-10-04 12:10                   ` Lucas Meneghel Rodrigues
2012-10-04 12:10                     ` [Qemu-devel] " Lucas Meneghel Rodrigues
2012-10-04 12:27                     ` Jan Kiszka
2012-10-04 12:27                       ` [Qemu-devel] " Jan Kiszka
2012-10-04 17:21                       ` Lucas Meneghel Rodrigues
2012-10-04 17:21                         ` [Qemu-devel] " Lucas Meneghel Rodrigues
2012-10-04 17:24                         ` Jan Kiszka
2012-10-04 17:24                           ` [Qemu-devel] " Jan Kiszka
2012-10-01 13:31         ` Marcelo Tosatti
2012-10-01 13:31           ` [Qemu-devel] " Marcelo Tosatti
2012-10-01 13:36           ` Jan Kiszka
2012-10-01 13:36             ` [Qemu-devel] " Jan Kiszka
2012-10-01 13:44             ` Michael Tokarev
2012-10-01 13:44               ` [Qemu-devel] " Michael Tokarev
2012-10-01 13:48               ` Jan Kiszka
2012-10-01 13:48                 ` [Qemu-devel] " Jan Kiszka
2012-10-01 13:38         ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-10-01 13:38           ` [Qemu-devel] " Paolo Bonzini
2012-10-01 13:46           ` Jan Kiszka [this message]
2012-10-01 13:46             ` Jan Kiszka
2012-10-01 14:04           ` Anthony Liguori
2012-10-01 14:04             ` [Qemu-devel] " Anthony Liguori
2012-10-01 14:34             ` [PATCH] kvm: Set default accelerator to "kvm" if the host supports it Jan Kiszka
2012-10-01 14:34               ` [Qemu-devel] " Jan Kiszka
2012-10-01 16:20               ` Anthony Liguori
2012-10-01 16:20                 ` [Qemu-devel] " Anthony Liguori
2012-10-01 16:56                 ` Aurelien Jarno
2012-10-01 16:56                   ` [Qemu-devel] " Aurelien Jarno
2012-10-03  9:02                 ` Jan Kiszka
2012-10-03  9:02                   ` [Qemu-devel] " Jan Kiszka
2012-10-03 20:01                 ` Blue Swirl
2012-10-03 20:01                   ` [Qemu-devel] " Blue Swirl
2012-10-03 20:26                   ` Peter Maydell
2012-10-03 20:26                     ` Peter Maydell
2012-10-05  1:15                     ` Alexander Graf
2012-10-05  1:15                       ` Alexander Graf
2012-10-05  2:17                       ` Anthony Liguori
2012-10-05  2:17                         ` [Qemu-devel] " Anthony Liguori
2012-10-05  2:24                         ` Alexander Graf
2012-10-05  2:24                           ` Alexander Graf
2012-10-05  8:15                           ` Peter Maydell
2012-10-05  8:15                             ` Peter Maydell
2012-10-08 14:03                           ` Andreas Färber
2012-10-08 14:03                             ` Andreas Färber
2012-10-08 14:08                             ` Alexander Graf
2012-10-08 14:08                               ` Alexander Graf
2012-10-01 16:43               ` Andreas Färber
2012-10-01 16:43                 ` Andreas Färber
2012-10-01 16:47                 ` Daniel P. Berrange
2012-10-01 16:47                   ` Daniel P. Berrange
2012-10-01 19:03                   ` Anthony Liguori
2012-10-01 19:03                     ` Anthony Liguori
2012-10-01 19:25                     ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-10-01 19:25                       ` [Qemu-devel] " Paolo Bonzini
2012-10-01 20:07                       ` Anthony Liguori
2012-10-01 20:07                         ` Anthony Liguori
2012-10-02  7:46                   ` Markus Armbruster
2012-10-02  7:46                     ` [Qemu-devel] " Markus Armbruster
2012-10-02  8:15                     ` Aurelien Jarno
2012-10-02  8:15                       ` Aurelien Jarno
2012-10-03  6:58                     ` Michael Tokarev
2012-10-03  6:58                       ` Michael Tokarev
2012-10-03  9:05                       ` Jan Kiszka
2012-10-03  9:05                         ` [Qemu-devel] " Jan Kiszka
2012-10-01 14:07         ` qemu-kvm: remove "boot=on|off" drive parameter compatibility Alexander Graf
2012-10-01 14:07           ` [Qemu-devel] " Alexander Graf
2012-10-01 14:20           ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-10-01 14:20             ` [Qemu-devel] " Paolo Bonzini
2012-10-01 15:39         ` Bruce Rogers
2012-10-01 15:39           ` Bruce Rogers
2012-10-02  8:14         ` Daniel P. Berrange
2012-10-02  8:14           ` [Qemu-devel] " Daniel P. Berrange

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