On 26/03/19 12:38, Yang Zhong wrote: > On Tue, Mar 26, 2019 at 10:07:35AM +0100, Paolo Bonzini wrote: >> Would separate QEMU binaries be a solution? I think I am not as opposed >> to a "q35-lite" machine type these days, I find it preferrable to share >> the northbridge and southbridge with Q35 and just get rid of IDE, VGA, >> IOAPIC, legacy ISA devices etc. The chipset would stay the same as q35 >> so that we keep secure boot, share the code for ACPI stuff (hotplug), >> and if the OS needs it we can also add back the RTC. >> > Paolo, i am doing NEMU rebase work and will make up these patches for > upstream. You do not want to add extra machine type for x86 ? There > are two type of light weight solutions in our intel > 1) qemu-lite > PVH has been merged into Qemu 4.0, which seems there is no chance > for our skip bios solution for upstream? > 2) NEMU > Our previous plan is to upstream NEMU's virt platform into Qemu.
Personally I don't see any advantage in the virt platform compared to q35-lite. Other maintainers may disagree, in which case I will happily defer to their judgment. Paolo
