On 25/06/2018 19:30, Eduardo Habkost wrote: >>> Attentive distros could even replace the wrapper script by a link. >> If they are okay with replacing the "KVM only" semantics with "KVM or >> TCG", which I think is generally worse. > > If we can't get agreement on what's the right default for each > QEMU binary, I think that's yet another reason to document that > upstream QEMU won't guarantee ABI compatibility if -accel is > omitted.
Before that we should ask what the benefit is in changing the default for qemu-system-*. Nobody is using it in practice to start QEMU with KVM enabled... Paolo > If downstream distributions want to keep promising ABI > compatibility, it will be up to them.
