On Wed, Oct 04, 2023 at 02:37:14PM +0200, Thomas Huth wrote: > On 04/10/2023 14.33, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 04, 2023 at 11:06:15AM +0200, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote: > > > This series finishes the cleanup which remove the confusion > > > of using 'softmmu' when we really mean 'system emulation', > > > as opposition to 'user emulation'. > > > > Am I mis-understanding what you mean by 'finishes' here, as > > I see many references to softmmu remaining > > > > $ git grep softmmu | wc -l > > 270 > > > > In particular under configs/ > > > > I was also hoping it meant that we'd be changing configure > > to allow > > > > configure --target-list=x86_64-system > > > > though the lazy side of me would like > > > > configure --target-list=x86_64-vm > > > > for less typing > > Maybe we should also bikeshed about the naming first... "system" is a quite > overloaded word in this context already, and "vm" sounds rather like > hardware-accelerated stuff ... what about using something like "sysemu"? Or > "fullsys" for "full system emulation" (in contrast to "user space"-only > emulation)?
Simply 'machine' feels like an option, to avoid suggesting a bias towards either virtualization or emulation. With regards, Daniel -- |: https://berrange.com -o- https://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange :| |: https://libvirt.org -o- https://fstop138.berrange.com :| |: https://entangle-photo.org -o- https://www.instagram.com/dberrange :|
