Re: [Qemu-devel] QEMU 3.0 ?

[Cornelia Huck]

On Thu, 23 Nov 2017 13:05:33 +0100
Paolo Bonzini <address@hidden> wrote:

> On 23/11/2017 12:57, Thomas Huth wrote:
> > On 23.11.2017 12:17, Paolo Bonzini wrote:  
> >> On 23/11/2017 11:57, Thomas Huth wrote:  
> > [...]  
> >>> I've put "--accel kvm:hax:tcg" also on the doable list since I don't
> >>> remember any objections to that idea so far -- feel free to move it to
> >>> the controversial list instead if you think it needs more discussion.  
> >>
> >> "hax" is very far from feature parity with TCG, it doesn't even support
> >> CPUID (-cpu).  "-accel kvm:hvf:tcg" could be a possibility, but only if
> >> we have resources to test it.  As far as I know the only active x86
> >> developer who owns a Mac is Igor?  
> > 
> > hvf hasn't been merged yet ... do you expect it to hit master after 2.11
> > has been released?  
> 
> Yes, more or less.
> 
> > Otherwise, we should maybe rather simply go with
> > "--accel kvm:tcg"?  
> 
> Yes, HVF can come later.

This switch sounds like something we can easily do for the next
release; I'd hope that anyone explicitly requiring tcg already
specifies it.