On 02/20/2013 01:13 PM, Paolo Bonzini wrote: > Il 20/02/2013 18:48, Cole Robinson ha scritto: >>> Actually I think it is relatively easy to support migration from BOTH >>> qemu and qemu-kvm. By adding a _runtime_ command-line switch (such as >>> --qemu-kvm-compat, which has been already mentioned in other context), >>> which modifies that migration stuff (machine definitions) in a reasonable >>> way. It can be done based on this patchset I guess (when it will be >>> polished and proven to work well). And after that is done, this >>> configure option can go away. >>> >>> How do you guys think? >> >> That solution works for me too. > > The configure option needs to remain for distros that need it for > backwards compatibility. Adding support for migration from both can be > done on top. >
Ah, true, I wasn't thinking about it fully. I figured having qemu-kvm be a wrapper script that passed -qemu-kvm-compat would cover us, but in Fedora 18 even qemu-system-x86_64 uses the qemu-kvm migration format, so we will always want the configure option. - Cole
