Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Introduce -accel command option.

[Anthony Liguori]

On 11/16/2010 10:55 AM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> > Just -machine accel=accels.
> >
> > Part of my rational is that accelerator is a machine property.  If you
> > do -M xenpv it ought to imply -machine accel=xen.
> >      
> Surely, only if it is running on a Xen Dom0. If you use -M xenpv on a KVM
> host, then -M xenpv should imply -machine accel=kvm (ie it would be using
> xenner)
>    

Xenner is very different than Xen so I'd rather there be a separate 
machine type.

Too much magic makes debugging difficult because it's wildly different 
code paths even given the same invocation depending on whether you're on 
a dom0, a domU, or a KVM-enabled normal Linux.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

> Regards,
> Daniel
>