Re: [Qemu-trivial] [RFC PATCH 4/4] qemu-options: Do not show -enable-kvm and -enable-hax in the docs anymore

[Stefan Hajnoczi]

On Wed, Jun 13, 2018 at 07:05:21AM +0200, Thomas Huth wrote:
> We've got three ways of enabling an accelerator: -machine accel=xyz,
> -accel xyz and -enable-xyz. For new QEMU users, this must be very
> confusing ("Which one do I have to use? Is there a difference between
> the options?"). While -enable-kvm was useful in the past, there is no
> real good reason for using it anymore today ("-accel kvm" is even less
> to type than "-enable-kvm"), so let's decrease the confusing amount of
> options in our documenation a little bit by removing the -enable-xyz
> here. Note that the option itself is neither removed nor marked as
> deprecated - since -enable-kvm is likely used in a lot of scripts and
> since its code is easy to maintain, we should keep it around to avoid
> to break old setups.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <address@hidden>
> ---
>  PS: I guess Paolo won't like this patch ... let's try it anyway ;-)

It's widely used and we're removing the documentation for it?!  That is
likely to cause issues for new users who refer to the man page to
understand the QEMU command-lines they see online, in scripts, etc.

IMO -enable-kvm is not worth inconveniencing users about.  We gain very
little from abolishing it from docs and/or code, but its absence will
annoy our users.

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