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[Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH] qemu-kvm: Switch to upstream -enable-kvm semant
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Markus Armbruster |
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[Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH] qemu-kvm: Switch to upstream -enable-kvm semantics |
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Tue, 21 Dec 2010 16:41:03 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1 (gnu/linux) |
Avi Kivity <address@hidden> writes:
> On 12/15/2010 07:57 PM, Markus Armbruster wrote:
>> > In the short term, it would be a good idea to modify qemu-kvm to
>> > switch the -enable-kvm semantics to match upstream (fail if KVM isn't
>> > available).
>>
>> That's what my patch does.
>>
>> Additionally, it changes the default to match upstream: KVM disabled.
>>
>> What do you want changed in my patch?
>
> The 'Additionally' bit. qemu-kvm users rely on the default enabling
> kvm. Likely they don't rely on -enable-kvm failing is kvm is not
> available (and indeed, they likely expect it to match upstream). So
> the patch should only change behaviour when -enable-kvm is specified.
Like this?
upstream qemu | default |-enable-kvm
----------------+-----------+-----------
KVM available | disabled | enabled
KVM unavailable | disabled | fail
qemu-kvm | default |-enable-kvm| -no-kvm
----------------+-----------+-----------+-----------
KVM available | enabled* | enabled | disabled
KVM unavailable | disabled | fail | disabled
* differs from upstream
- [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH] qemu-kvm: Switch to upstream -enable-kvm semantics, Anthony Liguori, 2010/12/15
- [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH] qemu-kvm: Switch to upstream -enable-kvm semantics, Markus Armbruster, 2010/12/15
- [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH] qemu-kvm: Switch to upstream -enable-kvm semantics, Avi Kivity, 2010/12/21
- [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH] qemu-kvm: Switch to upstream -enable-kvm semantics, Richard W.M. Jones, 2010/12/21
- [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH] qemu-kvm: Switch to upstream -enable-kvm semantics, Richard W.M. Jones, 2010/12/21
- [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH] qemu-kvm: Switch to upstream -enable-kvm semantics, Markus Armbruster, 2010/12/21
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH] qemu-kvm: Switch to upstream -enable-kvm semantics, Anthony Liguori, 2010/12/21
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH] qemu-kvm: Switch to upstream -enable-kvm semantics, Alexander Graf, 2010/12/21