Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Deprecate '-enable-kvm' and '-enable-hax' in favour of '-accel'

[Thomas Huth]

On 02.05.2017 12:32, Christian Borntraeger wrote:
> On 05/02/2017 12:06 PM, Thomas Huth wrote:
>> The '-enable-...' option do not make too much sense: They do not
>> allow additional parameters, using '-accel xxx' is shorter than
>> '-enable-xxx' and we're also inconsistent here, since there is
>> no '-enable-xen' option available. So let's try to convince the
>> users to use '-accel xxx' instead.
> 
> google has 36000 hits for "--enable-kvm" and 18000 hits for "--accel kvm"
> So I assume this will affect a lot of setups for only a very small benefit.

I'm aware of the fact that likely a lot of users are still using
-enable-kvm, and I did not mean that we should remove it soon yet. But
IMHO we should start now to inform the users that they should slowly
switch to the better option "-accel" instead, so that we could maybe
remove this "-enable-xxx" stuff sometime in the distant future (let's
say QEMU v4.0?).

 Thomas