configure_accelerator() falls back to tcg if no accelerator has been specified. Formerly, we could be sure that tcg is always available; however, with --disable-tcg, this is not longer true, and you are not able to start qemu without explicitly specifying another accelerator on those builds.
Instead, choose an accelerator in the order tcg->kvm->hax. Signed-off-by: Cornelia Huck <coh...@redhat.com> --- RFC->v2: - drop xen from the list of fallbacks - use comma-delimited list of accelerators (much easier) - changed one place in qemu-options.hx that had been missed --- accel/accel.c | 3 +-- qemu-options.hx | 8 +++++--- 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/accel/accel.c b/accel/accel.c index 8ae40e1e13..e8a3121d06 100644 --- a/accel/accel.c +++ b/accel/accel.c @@ -79,8 +79,7 @@ void configure_accelerator(MachineState *ms) accel = qemu_opt_get(qemu_get_machine_opts(), "accel"); if (accel == NULL) { - /* Use the default "accelerator", tcg */ - accel = "tcg"; + accel = "tcg:kvm:hax"; } p = accel; diff --git a/qemu-options.hx b/qemu-options.hx index 9f6e2adfff..2ff88389e0 100644 --- a/qemu-options.hx +++ b/qemu-options.hx @@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ DEF("machine", HAS_ARG, QEMU_OPTION_machine, \ "-machine [type=]name[,prop[=value][,...]]\n" " selects emulated machine ('-machine help' for list)\n" " property accel=accel1[:accel2[:...]] selects accelerator\n" - " supported accelerators are kvm, xen, hax or tcg (default: tcg)\n" + " supported accelerators are kvm, xen, hax or tcg (default: tcg:kvm:hax)\n" " kernel_irqchip=on|off|split controls accelerated irqchip support (default=off)\n" " vmport=on|off|auto controls emulation of vmport (default: auto)\n" " kvm_shadow_mem=size of KVM shadow MMU in bytes\n" @@ -66,7 +66,8 @@ Supported machine properties are: @table @option @item accel=@var{accels1}[:@var{accels2}[:...]] This is used to enable an accelerator. Depending on the target architecture, -kvm, xen, hax or tcg can be available. By default, tcg is used. If there is +kvm, xen, hax or tcg can be available. By default, the first one available +out of tcg, kvm, hax (in that order) is used. If there is more than one accelerator specified, the next one is used if the previous one fails to initialize. @item kernel_irqchip=on|off @@ -126,7 +127,8 @@ STEXI @item -accel @var{name}[,prop=@var{value}[,...]] @findex -accel This is used to enable an accelerator. Depending on the target architecture, -kvm, xen, hax or tcg can be available. By default, tcg is used. If there is +kvm, xen, hax or tcg can be available. By default, the first one available +out of tcg, kvm, hax (in that order) is used. If there is more than one accelerator specified, the next one is used if the previous one fails to initialize. @table @option -- 2.13.5