Re: [Qemu-devel] [ANNOUNCE] QEMU 1.3.0 release

[Markus Armbruster]

Gerhard Wiesinger <address@hidden> writes:

> On 07.12.2012 08:37, Markus Armbruster wrote:
>> Gerhard Wiesinger <address@hidden> writes:
>>
>>> On 03.12.2012 21:51, Anthony Liguori wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> Major features include:
>>>>    - After nearly 6 years of work, all remaining differences between the
>>>>      qemu-kvm.git and qemu.git have been merged into qemu.git
>>>>
>>> How is qemu-kvm enabled?
>>> --enable-kvm ?
>> Yes.

There's also --machine parameter accel.  From --help:

                property accel=accel1[:accel2[:...]] selects accelerator
                supported accelerators are kvm, xen, tcg (default: tcg)

Example: --machine accel=kvm:tcg tries KVM, and if it's unavailable, it
falls back to TCG.

>>> Is there a runtime only command line switch also available?
>> I didn't get that.
>
> Is it possible to have only one binary built and switch between qemu
> and qemu-kvm by specifying a command line option?
> Another possibility might be when binary is name qemu-kvm KVM is
> enabled otherwise not-
>
> Therefore 2 different binary builds between qemu and qemu-kvm aren't
> necessary.

There's only one build.  The resulting binary is intended to serve as
drop-in replacement for qemu-kvm.  Please report any regressions.