Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] define qemukvm-1.2 machine type

[Paolo Bonzini]

> > > > 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.

Paolo