Re: [libvirt] PATCH: Be more flexible in emulator choice on x86 archs

2009-03-20 Thread Daniel Veillard
On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 11:18:57AM +, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > To address this I think we'd need to completely change the logic to > do something like > > - For each directory in $PATH > For each emulator name in (qemu, qemu-system-x864, etc) > If emulator exists >

Re: [libvirt] PATCH: Be more flexible in emulator choice on x86 archs

2009-03-20 Thread Daniel P. Berrange
On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 11:57:24AM +0100, Daniel Veillard wrote: > On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 06:03:59PM +, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > > Currently we are pretty strict about what emulator binary we allow for > > QEMU guests on x86 arches. In particular, for arch+domain type combos: > > > > - i6

Re: [libvirt] PATCH: Be more flexible in emulator choice on x86 archs

2009-03-20 Thread Daniel Veillard
On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 06:03:59PM +, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > Currently we are pretty strict about what emulator binary we allow for > QEMU guests on x86 arches. In particular, for arch+domain type combos: > > - i686+qemu must use 'qemu' binary > - x86_64+qemu must use 'qemu-system-x86_6

Re: [libvirt] PATCH: Be more flexible in emulator choice on x86 archs

2009-03-20 Thread Daniel P. Berrange
On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 08:23:46AM +0100, Nikola Ciprich wrote: > Hi Dan, > I'd like to ask about qemu-0.10.0: it already contains KVM support, > BUT in contrary to std kvm userspace package, KVM support needs to be enabled > by switch (while in kvm shipped userspace it's enabled by default and can

Re: [libvirt] PATCH: Be more flexible in emulator choice on x86 archs

2009-03-20 Thread Nikola Ciprich
Hi Dan, I'd like to ask about qemu-0.10.0: it already contains KVM support, BUT in contrary to std kvm userspace package, KVM support needs to be enabled by switch (while in kvm shipped userspace it's enabled by default and can by disabled by switch). How can I enable it when I want to use new qem

[libvirt] PATCH: Be more flexible in emulator choice on x86 archs

2009-03-16 Thread Daniel P. Berrange
Currently we are pretty strict about what emulator binary we allow for QEMU guests on x86 arches. In particular, for arch+domain type combos: - i686+qemu must use 'qemu' binary - x86_64+qemu must use 'qemu-system-x86_64' binary - kvm must use 'qemu-kvm' or 'kvm' binaries - i686+kvm on x86_64 h