On 4 October 2016 at 13:00, Daniel P. Berrange <berra...@redhat.com> wrote: > On Tue, Oct 04, 2016 at 01:30:47PM +0200, Laurent Vivier wrote: >> By default, QEMU uses 'tcg' or the one provided with the "accel" >> property. >> >> But sometime, user wants to use a real accelerator without knowing >> if he really can, with, for instance accel=kvm:tcg. >> In this case, and if the accelerator is not available we >> have a noisy "XXX accelerator not found". > > IMHO it would be better to just remove that warning message > and continue using existing accel=kvm:tcg syntax to specify > the preference of which accelerators to use.
Oddly we don't give a warning message for what is probably the most common user error: forgetting to specify -enable-kvm and thus getting TCG only even though the h/w supports KVM... thanks -- PMM
