On 07/05/2018 09:56, Markus Armbruster wrote: >>>> 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.
I'm not sure I get it... "-accel" was added in order to provide accelerator options. If anything, "-machine accel" (added back in 2010) is the one that makes little sense these days. Paolo
