On 04/05/2018 19:01, Thomas Huth wrote: > The -no-kvm* options are a remainder of the ancient "qemu-kvm" > fork. They have never been officially documented in our qemu-doc, > they have been marked as deprecated in the sources since a very > long time, and we've marked them as deprecated in our qemu-doc > since QEMU v2.10. So far I haven't seen any complaints that we > should keep them, so it's time to remove these old parameters now. > > While I'm at it, this patch series also removes a left-over from > the "-tdf" option (which has been removed with QEMU v2.12) and > fixes a deficiency in the option parsing code that has been > revealed by the remainder of the "-tdf" option. > > Thomas Huth (5): > qemu-options: Remove remainders of the -tdf option > qemu-options: Bail out on unsupported options instead of silently > ignoring them > qemu-options: Remove deprecated -no-kvm-pit-reinjection > qemu-options: Remove deprecated -no-kvm-irqchip > qemu-options: Remove deprecated -no-kvm
I'm not that sure anymore about -no-kvm. It can come in handy for distros (*cough* RHEL *cough) that only ship a qemu-kvm binary with default accelerator "-machine accel=kvm:tcg". Yeah, "-accel tcg" is only a few characters later, but it is a relatively recent addition. Paolo
