Avi Kivity wrote: > Alexander Graf wrote: >> Most distributions use an executable name of qemu-kvm for kvm's >> qemu version. >> This is mostly because Qemu was there before and there usually is >> a package with a binary called qemu-system-x86_64 already. >> >> In order to not confuse people why distributions do things so >> differently from upstream, let's call the binary qemu-kvm in make >> install, so it's always qemu-kvm. >> >> Inspired by Anthony. >> > > While it does make sense, this will break a ton of existing scripts > (and my testsuite...). Also, upsteam qemu also does not rename qemu > even when kvm support is enabled.
Wouldn't your scripts simply run qemu-system-x86_64 from the build directory? The patch only affects make install for exactly that reason. And at least from a distro perspective, symlinking qemu-kvm to qemu-system-x86_64 when things get stable in upstream qemu sounds fairly easy :-). Alex -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
