On Tue, Jun 19, 2018 at 06:16:33PM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> 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.
Why is this better than using KVM by default if it's available?
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Eduardo
