On 14/01/20 09:59, Markus Armbruster wrote: > Paolo Bonzini <pbonz...@redhat.com> writes: > >> On 13/01/20 17:17, Markus Armbruster wrote: >>> Perfect opportunity to change the default to something more useful. >> >> I am not sure acutally if it's that more useful, now that we have >> sanctioned qemu-kvm as the fast alternative. > > If there is a fast alternative, why ship the slow one?
I find it more consistent that qemu-system-* is doing emulation (and can usually be ignored) and qemu-kvm is doing virtualization. It's more intuitive to launch qemu-system-x86_64 than "qemu-kvm --no-kvm". What we could do is automatically install a qemu-kvm binary for the "most suitable" target that has KVM enabled (i.e. for qemu-system-x86_64, not qemu-system-i386) instead of leaving it to distros. Paolo > No matter what we do, somebody is going to be confused. How to resolve > such a conundrum? Utilitarian philosophy teaches us to pursue the > greatest confusion of the greatest numbers. I think not using x86 > hardware virtualization by default has been admirably successful there.
