Jan Kiszka wrote:
> Glauber Costa wrote:
>> This option deprecates --enable-kvm. It is a more flexible option,
>> that makes use of qemu-opts, and allow us to pass on options to enable or
>> disable kernel irqchip, for example.
>>
>
> ...
>
>> diff --git a/qemu-options.hx b/qemu-options.hx
>> index 3f49b44..f8fd86d 100644
>> --- a/qemu-options.hx
>> +++ b/qemu-options.hx
>> @@ -1793,10 +1793,17 @@ Set the filename for the BIOS.
>> ETEXI
>>
>> #ifdef CONFIG_KVM
>> -DEF("enable-kvm", 0, QEMU_OPTION_enable_kvm, \
>> - "-enable-kvm enable KVM full virtualization support\n")
>> +HXCOMM Options deprecated by -kvm
>> +DEF("enable-kvm", 0, QEMU_OPTION_enable_kvm, "")
>> +
>> +DEF("kvm", HAS_ARG, QEMU_OPTION_kvm, \
>> + "-kvm enable=on|off,irqchip-in-kernel=on|off\n" \
>> + " enable KVM full virtualization support\n")
>> +
Argh, never trust documentation: The magic option is "enabled", not
"enable". :)
>
> I would prefer "irqchip=kernel|user" - shorter and even more verbose.
And we should refuse to work if the user tries to enable in-kernel
support without having io-threads enabled. That obviously fails silently
so far.
"info kvm" should also be extended to report the configuration in force.
>
> Forgot if that was discussed already: Do we want "pit=kernel|user" as well?
>
No comments on this?
Jan
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