On 19/06/2018 17:15, Cornelia Huck wrote: >> Why does a user have to know how to enable KVM? Oh, because our default >> is "run this guest much slower than necessary". Great! > Should we try again to default to a better accelerator, if possible? I > don't quite recall why we didn't do so the last time that came up... > was it tests?
My plan was to create qemu-{kvm,hax,hvf,whpx} binaries that default to a better accelerator, and leave qemu-system-* as defaulting to TCG. This matches what distributions already do. Paolo