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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] define qemukvm-1.2 machine type
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Anthony Liguori |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] define qemukvm-1.2 machine type |
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Fri, 14 Dec 2012 07:29:27 -0600 |
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Paolo Bonzini <address@hidden> writes:
>> > > > I think distros that used to ship qemu-kvm should just change
>> > > > the default just like for the acpi_piix4.c change.
>> > >
>> > > Maybe we could provide a --with-qemu-kvm-compat configure flag to
>> > > them?
>
> I like this.
>
>> > I think that defeats the purpose of a single binary.
>> >
>> > I think it would be better for the distros to have a qemu-kvm
>> > script that was:
>> >
>> > /usr/libexec/qemu-kvm:
>> >
>> > #!/bin/sh
>> >
>> > qemu-system-x86_64 -enable-qemu-kvm-compat "$@"
>>
>> That would be even better. I proposed a configure flag because I
>> understood (maybe incorrectly) that Paolo proposed a build-time
>> default change.
>
> Yes, that's what I was thinking. The problem is that Fedora did ship a
> qemu-system-x86_64 binary that disabled the qemu-kvm options (including
> using TCG by default), but it still had a qemu-kvm-compatible migration
> format.
Can you be more specific? What's different in the migration format?
Regards,
Anthony Liguori
>
> Paolo
Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] define qemukvm-1.2 machine type, Anthony Liguori, 2012/12/13