We (Ubuntu) plan to switch to qemu in the next release which opens in November. I suppose there's likely to be a hiccough or two, but I can't think of any offhand.
-serge Quoting Scott Moser (smo...@ubuntu.com): > you should have been added here. > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2012 09:19:29 > From: Anthony Liguori <anth...@codemonkey.ws> > To: Jan Kiszka <jan.kis...@siemens.com>, Marcelo Tosatti <mtosa...@redhat.com> > Cc: kvm <k...@vger.kernel.org>, qemu-devel <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>, > Cole Robinson <crobi...@redhat.com>, Scott Moser <smo...@ubuntu.com>, > Andreas Färber <afaer...@suse.de>, Michael Tokarev <m...@tls.msk.ru> > Subject: Re: qemu-kvm: remove "boot=on|off" drive parameter compatibility > > Jan Kiszka <jan.kis...@siemens.com> writes: > > > On 2012-10-01 11:31, Marcelo Tosatti wrote: > > > > It's not just about default configs. We need to validate if the > > migration formats are truly compatible (qemu-kvm -> QEMU, the other way > > around definitely not). For the command line switches, we could provide > > a wrapper script that translates them into upstream format or simply > > ignores them. That should be harmless to carry upstream. > > qemu-kvm has: > > -no-kvm > -no-kvm-irqchip > -no-kvm-pit > -no-kvm-pit-reinjection > -tdf <- does nothing > > There are replacements for all of the above. If we need to add them to > qemu.git, it's not big deal to add them. > > -drive ...,boot= <- this is ignored > > cpu_set command for CPU hotplug which is known broken in qemu-kvm. > > testdev which is nice but only used for development > > Default nic is rtl8139 vs. e1000. > > Some logic to move change the default VGA ram size to 16mb for pc-1.2 > (QEMU uses 16mb by default now too). > > I think at this point, none of this matters but I added the various > distro maintainers to the thread. > > I think it's time for the distros to drop qemu-kvm and just ship > qemu.git. Is there anything else that needs to happen to make that > switch? > > Regards, > > Anthony Liguori > > > > > But I would really stop worrying about the qemu-kvm code base. > > > > Jan > > > > -- > > Siemens AG, Corporate Technology, CT RTC ITP SDP-DE > > Corporate Competence Center Embedded Linux > > -- > > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in > > the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org > > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
