On 05/02/2017 12:37 PM, Thomas Huth wrote: > On 02.05.2017 12:32, Christian Borntraeger wrote: >> On 05/02/2017 12:06 PM, Thomas Huth wrote: >>> The '-enable-...' option do not make too much sense: They do not >>> allow additional parameters, using '-accel xxx' is shorter than >>> '-enable-xxx' and we're also inconsistent here, since there is >>> no '-enable-xen' option available. So let's try to convince the >>> users to use '-accel xxx' instead.
FWIW, -enable-kvm ia not shortcut to make things easier, it predates the accel parameter. Maybe that is the reason why this patch does not feel right to me. >> >> google has 36000 hits for "--enable-kvm" and 18000 hits for "--accel kvm" >> So I assume this will affect a lot of setups for only a very small benefit. > > I'm aware of the fact that likely a lot of users are still using > -enable-kvm, and I did not mean that we should remove it soon yet. But > IMHO we should start now to inform the users that they should slowly > switch to the better option "-accel" instead, so that we could maybe > remove this "-enable-xxx" stuff sometime in the distant future (let's > say QEMU v4.0?). > > Thomas >
