On Thu, 23 Nov 2017 13:05:33 +0100 Paolo Bonzini <pbonz...@redhat.com> wrote:
> On 23/11/2017 12:57, Thomas Huth wrote: > > On 23.11.2017 12:17, Paolo Bonzini wrote: > >> On 23/11/2017 11:57, Thomas Huth wrote: > > [...] > >>> I've put "--accel kvm:hax:tcg" also on the doable list since I don't > >>> remember any objections to that idea so far -- feel free to move it to > >>> the controversial list instead if you think it needs more discussion. > >> > >> "hax" is very far from feature parity with TCG, it doesn't even support > >> CPUID (-cpu). "-accel kvm:hvf:tcg" could be a possibility, but only if > >> we have resources to test it. As far as I know the only active x86 > >> developer who owns a Mac is Igor? > > > > hvf hasn't been merged yet ... do you expect it to hit master after 2.11 > > has been released? > > Yes, more or less. > > > Otherwise, we should maybe rather simply go with > > "--accel kvm:tcg"? > > Yes, HVF can come later. This switch sounds like something we can easily do for the next release; I'd hope that anyone explicitly requiring tcg already specifies it.