> > > > I think distros that used to ship qemu-kvm should just change > > > > the default just like for the acpi_piix4.c change. > > > > > > Maybe we could provide a --with-qemu-kvm-compat configure flag to > > > them?
I like this. > > I think that defeats the purpose of a single binary. > > > > I think it would be better for the distros to have a qemu-kvm > > script that was: > > > > /usr/libexec/qemu-kvm: > > > > #!/bin/sh > > > > qemu-system-x86_64 -enable-qemu-kvm-compat "$@" > > That would be even better. I proposed a configure flag because I > understood (maybe incorrectly) that Paolo proposed a build-time > default change. Yes, that's what I was thinking. The problem is that Fedora did ship a qemu-system-x86_64 binary that disabled the qemu-kvm options (including using TCG by default), but it still had a qemu-kvm-compatible migration format. Paolo
