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Re: [Qemu-devel] qemu-kvm: remove "boot=on|off" drive parameter compatib
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Serge Hallyn |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] qemu-kvm: remove "boot=on|off" drive parameter compatibility (fwd) |
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Mon, 1 Oct 2012 09:15:26 -0500 |
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Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) |
We (Ubuntu) plan to switch to qemu in the next release which opens in
November. I suppose there's likely to be a hiccough or two, but I can't
think of any offhand.
-serge
Quoting Scott Moser (address@hidden):
> you should have been added here.
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2012 09:19:29
> From: Anthony Liguori <address@hidden>
> To: Jan Kiszka <address@hidden>, Marcelo Tosatti <address@hidden>
> Cc: kvm <address@hidden>, qemu-devel <address@hidden>,
> Cole Robinson <address@hidden>, Scott Moser <address@hidden>,
> Andreas Färber <address@hidden>, Michael Tokarev <address@hidden>
> Subject: Re: qemu-kvm: remove "boot=on|off" drive parameter compatibility
>
> Jan Kiszka <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > On 2012-10-01 11:31, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
> >
> > It's not just about default configs. We need to validate if the
> > migration formats are truly compatible (qemu-kvm -> QEMU, the other way
> > around definitely not). For the command line switches, we could provide
> > a wrapper script that translates them into upstream format or simply
> > ignores them. That should be harmless to carry upstream.
>
> qemu-kvm has:
>
> -no-kvm
> -no-kvm-irqchip
> -no-kvm-pit
> -no-kvm-pit-reinjection
> -tdf <- does nothing
>
> There are replacements for all of the above. If we need to add them to
> qemu.git, it's not big deal to add them.
>
> -drive ...,boot= <- this is ignored
>
> cpu_set command for CPU hotplug which is known broken in qemu-kvm.
>
> testdev which is nice but only used for development
>
> Default nic is rtl8139 vs. e1000.
>
> Some logic to move change the default VGA ram size to 16mb for pc-1.2
> (QEMU uses 16mb by default now too).
>
> I think at this point, none of this matters but I added the various
> distro maintainers to the thread.
>
> 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?
>
> Regards,
>
> Anthony Liguori
>
> >
> > But I would really stop worrying about the qemu-kvm code base.
> >
> > Jan
> >
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