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From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>, Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 0/5] Removal of deprecated -no-kvm* options
Date: Mon, 7 May 2018 13:02:02 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ff5d2f93-8629-bc78-73a5-c3af38409647@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87sh73yk3z.fsf@dusky.pond.sub.org>

On 07/05/2018 09:56, Markus Armbruster wrote:
>>>> I'm not that sure anymore about -no-kvm.  It can come in handy for
>>>> distros (*cough* RHEL *cough) that only ship a qemu-kvm binary with
>>>> default accelerator "-machine accel=kvm:tcg".
>>>>
>>>> Yeah, "-accel tcg" is only a few characters later, but it is a
>>>> relatively recent addition.
>>>
>>> 2012 is "relatively recent" in the alternate RHEL universe, perhaps :)
>>
>> That was the "-machine accel=tcg", but Paolo was rather talking about
>> "-accel tcg", which has been added last year. Yes, we've got three (!)
>> ways of dealing with accelerators now: "-M accel=", "-accel" and
>> "-enable-kvm + -no-kvm". We're very userfriendly, aren't we? ;-)
>
> Ugh.  Apparently, vl.c still is a playground without adult supervision.

I'm not sure I get it... "-accel" was added in order to provide
accelerator options.  If anything, "-machine accel" (added back in 2010)
is the one that makes little sense these days.

Paolo

  reply	other threads:[~2018-05-07 11:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-05-04 17:01 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 0/5] Removal of deprecated -no-kvm* options Thomas Huth
2018-05-04 17:01 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 1/5] qemu-options: Remove remainders of the -tdf option Thomas Huth
2018-05-04 17:01 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 2/5] qemu-options: Bail out on unsupported options instead of silently ignoring them Thomas Huth
2018-05-16 16:49   ` Anthony PERARD
2018-05-16 16:51     ` Thomas Huth
2018-05-04 17:01 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 3/5] qemu-options: Remove deprecated -no-kvm-pit-reinjection Thomas Huth
2018-05-04 17:01 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 4/5] qemu-options: Remove deprecated -no-kvm-irqchip Thomas Huth
2018-05-04 17:01 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 5/5] qemu-options: Remove deprecated -no-kvm Thomas Huth
2018-05-04 21:57 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 0/5] Removal of deprecated -no-kvm* options Paolo Bonzini
2018-05-07  5:09   ` Thomas Huth
2018-05-07  5:37   ` Markus Armbruster
2018-05-07  5:45     ` Thomas Huth
2018-05-07  7:56       ` Markus Armbruster
2018-05-07 11:02         ` Paolo Bonzini [this message]
2018-05-07 11:56           ` Markus Armbruster
2018-05-07 12:44             ` Paolo Bonzini
2018-05-07 16:50               ` Markus Armbruster
2018-05-07 17:01                 ` Paolo Bonzini
2018-05-16 16:59                   ` Thomas Huth
2018-05-07 11:00     ` Paolo Bonzini
2018-05-07 11:47       ` Markus Armbruster
2018-05-04 21:58 ` Paolo Bonzini

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