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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] make /usr/bin/qemu the native arch
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Daniel P. Berrange |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] make /usr/bin/qemu the native arch |
Date: |
Sun, 8 Jul 2007 17:35:50 +0100 |
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Mutt/1.4.1i |
On Sun, Jul 08, 2007 at 02:21:02PM +0200, Robert Millan wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Shouldn't /usr/bin/qemu be an alias for qemu-system-$(ARCH), where $(ARCH) is
> the native architecture? Defaulting to i386 doesn't make much sense nowadays,
> specially since x86_64 is gradually obsoleting it.
Management tools for QEMU will have come to rely on existing semantics of
/usr/bin/qemu being i386. Changing this for merely cosmetic reasons would
cause significant technical complications because tools would then have to
try and detect whether /usr/bin/qemu were native or i386. Thus I see no
real functional/technical benefit to changing it, and plenty of downside.
Dan.
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