Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] accel: Allow to build QEMU without TCG or KVM support

[Anthony PERARD]

On Thu, Jan 17, 2019 at 07:02:24AM +0100, Thomas Huth wrote:
> On 2019-01-16 18:35, Anthony PERARD wrote:
> > Instead of deny build of QEMU without a default accelerator, simply
> > report an error when the user haven't passed -accel or -machine accel=
> > and TCG and KVM isn't builtin.
> > 
> > ./configure already check that at least one accelerator is available.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Anthony PERARD <address@hidden>
> > ---
> >  accel/accel.c | 4 +++-
> >  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/accel/accel.c b/accel/accel.c
> > index 68b6d56323..0d5b370dfd 100644
> > --- a/accel/accel.c
> > +++ b/accel/accel.c
> > @@ -91,7 +91,9 @@ void configure_accelerator(MachineState *ms, const char 
> > *progname)
> >  #elif defined(CONFIG_KVM)
> >              accel = "kvm";
> >  #else
> > -#error "No default accelerator available"
> > +            error_report("No accelerator selected and"
> > +                         " no default accelerator available");
> > +            exit(1);
> >  #endif
> >          }
> >      }
> 
> That looks a little bit friendlier, indeed.
> 
> Reviewed-by: Thomas Huth <address@hidden>
> 
> Out of curiosity: Did you hit the #error while compiling? Or just by
> reading the recent patches?

I've hit the #error. I often build QEMU with --disable-tcg --disable-kvm
--enable-xen just because I only need to build/test xen. So if I can
disable features that I don't need to build QEMU a tiny bit faster, I do
:).

-- 
Anthony PERARD