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Re: [Qemu-trivial] [PATCH 1/4] Replace '-machine accel=xyz' with '-accel
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Paolo Bonzini |
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Re: [Qemu-trivial] [PATCH 1/4] Replace '-machine accel=xyz' with '-accel xyz' |
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Wed, 13 Jun 2018 15:54:49 +0200 |
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On 13/06/2018 14:53, Thomas Huth wrote:
> On 13.06.2018 14:48, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
>> On 13/06/2018 07:05, Thomas Huth wrote:
>>> diff --git a/tests/vmgenid-test.c b/tests/vmgenid-test.c
>>> index 8d915c6..4324034 100644
>>> --- a/tests/vmgenid-test.c
>>> +++ b/tests/vmgenid-test.c
>>> @@ -131,7 +131,7 @@ static void read_guid_from_monitor(QemuUUID *guid)
>>> static char disk[] = "tests/vmgenid-test-disk-XXXXXX";
>>>
>>> #define GUID_CMD(guid) \
>>> - "-machine accel=kvm:tcg " \
>>> + "-accel kvm:tcg " \
>>> "-device vmgenid,id=testvgid,guid=%s " \
>>
>> "-accel kvm:tcg" works, but it really shouldn't (and I think we can
>> change it without a deprecation period). The right syntax would be
>> "-accel kvm -accel tcg", so that you can specify options that are valid
>> only for KVM, or onlty for TCG.
>
> I see your point, but this would break these qtests that are trying to
> override the "-machine accel=qtest" from libqtest.c this way...
The solution would be to put "-accel kvm -accel tcg" before "-accel qtest".
> and if
> any other tool out there in the wild is already depending on this
> behavior, too, we can not change it so easily anymore.
I think -accel is new and obscure enough that it's unlikely to be used
with a colon. In my opinion, the risk is worth the benefit of finally
getting a proper interface for accelerators.
Paolo
[Qemu-trivial] [PATCH 2/4] Replace '-enable-kvm' with '-accel kvm' in docs and help texts, Thomas Huth, 2018/06/13
[Qemu-trivial] [PATCH 3/4] qemu-options: Improve the documentation of '-accel' and '-machine accel=...', Thomas Huth, 2018/06/13
[Qemu-trivial] [RFC PATCH 4/4] qemu-options: Do not show -enable-kvm and -enable-hax in the docs anymore, Thomas Huth, 2018/06/13