On 23.11.2017 14:57, Peter Maydell wrote: > On 23 November 2017 at 13:51, Paolo Bonzini <pbonz...@redhat.com> wrote: >> On 23/11/2017 14:13, Peter Maydell wrote: >>> On 23 November 2017 at 13:02, Paolo Bonzini <pbonz...@redhat.com> wrote: >>>> In theory I don't like it either (and I hadn't thought about it until >>>> today). In practice, qemu-kvm is not going away from >>>> blogs/scripts/tutorials in a decade, so we might as well embrace it... >>> Isn't this distro-specific? In ubuntu by default there isn't >>> any wrapper, and if you do install the optional 'qemu-kvm' package >>> the wrapper it provides is /usr/bin/kvm, not /usr/bin/qemu-kvm. >> >> Fedora also has no wrapper in the qemu-system-x86 package, and only >> "qemu-kvm" installs one. In practice if you install the virtualization >> package group you get it. What about Ubuntu? > > Well, I didn't have the qemu-kvm package installed until I > pulled it in to check the wrapper name. > > My point is more that if there's no consensus between distros > about what the wrapper script name should be then as upstream > if we provide a qemu-kvm then we might be helping Fedora/RedHat > but we're just increasing confusion for those distros that > used a different name We could simply check whether argv[0] ends in "kvm" ... that should work with both "kvm" and "qemu-kvm".
Thomas
