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

[Paolo Bonzini]

On 25/06/2018 19:30, Eduardo Habkost wrote:
>>> Attentive distros could even replace the wrapper script by a link.
>> If they are okay with replacing the "KVM only" semantics with "KVM or
>> TCG", which I think is generally worse.
>
> If we can't get agreement on what's the right default for each
> QEMU binary, I think that's yet another reason to document that
> upstream QEMU won't guarantee ABI compatibility if -accel is
> omitted.

Before that we should ask what the benefit is in changing the default
for qemu-system-*.  Nobody is using it in practice to start QEMU with
KVM enabled...

Paolo

> If downstream distributions want to keep promising ABI
> compatibility, it will be up to them.