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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 0/5] Removal of deprecated -no-kvm* options
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Paolo Bonzini |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 0/5] Removal of deprecated -no-kvm* options |
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Fri, 4 May 2018 23:57:53 +0200 |
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On 04/05/2018 19:01, Thomas Huth wrote:
> The -no-kvm* options are a remainder of the ancient "qemu-kvm"
> fork. They have never been officially documented in our qemu-doc,
> they have been marked as deprecated in the sources since a very
> long time, and we've marked them as deprecated in our qemu-doc
> since QEMU v2.10. So far I haven't seen any complaints that we
> should keep them, so it's time to remove these old parameters now.
>
> While I'm at it, this patch series also removes a left-over from
> the "-tdf" option (which has been removed with QEMU v2.12) and
> fixes a deficiency in the option parsing code that has been
> revealed by the remainder of the "-tdf" option.
>
> Thomas Huth (5):
> qemu-options: Remove remainders of the -tdf option
> qemu-options: Bail out on unsupported options instead of silently
> ignoring them
> qemu-options: Remove deprecated -no-kvm-pit-reinjection
> qemu-options: Remove deprecated -no-kvm-irqchip
> qemu-options: Remove deprecated -no-kvm
I'm not that sure anymore about -no-kvm. It can come in handy for
distros (*cough* RHEL *cough) that only ship a qemu-kvm binary with
default accelerator "-machine accel=kvm:tcg".
Yeah, "-accel tcg" is only a few characters later, but it is a
relatively recent addition.
Paolo
- [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 0/5] Removal of deprecated -no-kvm* options, Thomas Huth, 2018/05/04
- [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 4/5] qemu-options: Remove deprecated -no-kvm-irqchip, Thomas Huth, 2018/05/04
- [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 1/5] qemu-options: Remove remainders of the -tdf option, Thomas Huth, 2018/05/04
- [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 3/5] qemu-options: Remove deprecated -no-kvm-pit-reinjection, Thomas Huth, 2018/05/04
- [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 2/5] qemu-options: Bail out on unsupported options instead of silently ignoring them, Thomas Huth, 2018/05/04
- [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 5/5] qemu-options: Remove deprecated -no-kvm, Thomas Huth, 2018/05/04
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 0/5] Removal of deprecated -no-kvm* options,
Paolo Bonzini <=
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 0/5] Removal of deprecated -no-kvm* options, Thomas Huth, 2018/05/07
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 0/5] Removal of deprecated -no-kvm* options, Markus Armbruster, 2018/05/07
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 0/5] Removal of deprecated -no-kvm* options, Thomas Huth, 2018/05/07
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 0/5] Removal of deprecated -no-kvm* options, Markus Armbruster, 2018/05/07
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 0/5] Removal of deprecated -no-kvm* options, Paolo Bonzini, 2018/05/07
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 0/5] Removal of deprecated -no-kvm* options, Markus Armbruster, 2018/05/07
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 0/5] Removal of deprecated -no-kvm* options, Paolo Bonzini, 2018/05/07
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 0/5] Removal of deprecated -no-kvm* options, Markus Armbruster, 2018/05/07
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 0/5] Removal of deprecated -no-kvm* options, Paolo Bonzini, 2018/05/07
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 0/5] Removal of deprecated -no-kvm* options, Thomas Huth, 2018/05/16