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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] accel: Improve selection of the default acceler
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Peter Maydell |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] accel: Improve selection of the default accelerator |
Date: |
Fri, 5 Oct 2018 15:22:44 +0100 |
On 5 October 2018 at 15:13, Thomas Huth <address@hidden> wrote:
> When compiling with "--disable-tcg", we currently still use "tcg"
> as default accelerator. "kvm" should be used in this case instead.
This part is non-controversial and makes good sense.
> Also, some downstream distros provide QEMU binaries which have "kvm"
> in their names (e.g. "qemu-kvm" on RHEL or "kvm" on Ubuntu) that use
> KVM by default - and some users might want to do something similar
> with upstream binaries, too. Accomodate them by using "kvm:tcg" as
> default when we detect such a binary name.
This part is much riskier and less clearly a good plan --
do we really want our behaviour to vary based on the name
of the executable? Distros who want that sort of qemu-kvm
wrapper generally are providing it already (the Ubuntu one
is a 2-line shell script).
thanks
-- PMM
- [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] accel: Improve selection of the default accelerator, Thomas Huth, 2018/10/05
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] accel: Improve selection of the default accelerator, Cornelia Huck, 2018/10/05
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] accel: Improve selection of the default accelerator,
Peter Maydell <=
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] accel: Improve selection of the default accelerator, Paolo Bonzini, 2018/10/05
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] accel: Improve selection of the default accelerator, Markus Armbruster, 2018/10/09
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] accel: Improve selection of the default accelerator, Markus Armbruster, 2018/10/09
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] accel: Improve selection of the default accelerator, Thomas Huth, 2018/10/09
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] accel: Improve selection of the default accelerator, Daniel P . Berrangé, 2018/10/09
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] accel: Improve selection of the default accelerator, Cornelia Huck, 2018/10/09
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] accel: Improve selection of the default accelerator, Peter Maydell, 2018/10/09
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] accel: Improve selection of the default accelerator, Daniel P . Berrangé, 2018/10/09
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] accel: Improve selection of the default accelerator, Peter Maydell, 2018/10/09