Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] accel: Improve selection of the default accelerator

[Peter Maydell]

On 9 October 2018 at 14:43, Cornelia Huck <address@hidden> wrote:
> I'm not sure why a single accelerator (any of them) would be a good
> default. A list (tcg:kvm:<whatever>) sounds much saner, as it would
> continue to work even if some accelerators have been disabled (right?)
>
> (And I'd prefer kvm to be first in that list; anything that relies on
> tcg being used should specify it explicitly... a normal user will
> likely always want the fast variant.)

tcg should be the default for binaries without KVM compiled in,
of course... But as Thomas points out, the reason for our current
default is the usual "because we tend not to change things that
would break existing working command lines".

thanks
-- PMM