Thomas Huth <th...@redhat.com> writes: > On 07.05.2018 07:37, Markus Armbruster wrote: >> Paolo Bonzini <pbonz...@redhat.com> writes: >> >>> 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. >> >> 2012 is "relatively recent" in the alternate RHEL universe, perhaps :) > > That was the "-machine accel=tcg", but Paolo was rather talking about > "-accel tcg", which has been added last year. Yes, we've got three (!) > ways of dealing with accelerators now: "-M accel=", "-accel" and > "-enable-kvm + -no-kvm". We're very userfriendly, aren't we? ;-)
Ugh. Apparently, vl.c still is a playground without adult supervision.
