From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jan Kiszka Subject: Re: qemu-kvm: remove "boot=on|off" drive parameter compatibility Date: Mon, 01 Oct 2012 15:46:04 +0200 Message-ID: <50699E9C.8020205@siemens.com> References: <20120930191146.GA20012@amt.cnet> <50694EC1.8060006@siemens.com> <20121001093102.GA14797@amt.cnet> <50696E9E.7030302@siemens.com> <87zk468h3y.fsf@codemonkey.ws> <50699CDC.1010604@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: kvm , Scott Moser , Marcelo Tosatti , Michael Tokarev , qemu-devel , Anthony Liguori , Cole Robinson , =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Andreas_F=E4rber?= To: Paolo Bonzini Return-path: In-Reply-To: <50699CDC.1010604@redhat.com> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: qemu-devel-bounces+gceq-qemu-devel=gmane.org@nongnu.org Sender: qemu-devel-bounces+gceq-qemu-devel=gmane.org@nongnu.org List-Id: kvm.vger.kernel.org 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 From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:48937) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TIgK9-00034G-Q9 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 01 Oct 2012 09:46:23 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TIgK0-0002gs-C7 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 01 Oct 2012 09:46:17 -0400 Received: from thoth.sbs.de ([192.35.17.2]:17301) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TIgK0-0002gU-2n for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 01 Oct 2012 09:46:08 -0400 Message-ID: <50699E9C.8020205@siemens.com> Date: Mon, 01 Oct 2012 15:46:04 +0200 From: Jan Kiszka MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <20120930191146.GA20012@amt.cnet> <50694EC1.8060006@siemens.com> <20121001093102.GA14797@amt.cnet> <50696E9E.7030302@siemens.com> <87zk468h3y.fsf@codemonkey.ws> <50699CDC.1010604@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <50699CDC.1010604@redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] qemu-kvm: remove "boot=on|off" drive parameter compatibility List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Paolo Bonzini Cc: kvm , Scott Moser , Marcelo Tosatti , Michael Tokarev , qemu-devel , Anthony Liguori , Cole Robinson , =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Andreas_F=E4rber?= 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