Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Introduce -accel command option.

[Anthony Liguori]

On 11/16/2010 10:10 AM, Anthony PERARD wrote:
> On Mon, 15 Nov 2010, Anthony Liguori wrote:
>
>    
> > On 11/15/2010 09:45 AM, address@hidden wrote:
> >      
> > > From: Anthony PERARD<address@hidden>
> > >
> > > This option gives the ability to switch one "accelerator" like kvm, xen
> > > or the default one tcg. We can specify more than one accelerator by
> > > separate them by a comma. QEMU will try each one and use the first whose
> > > works.
> > >
> > > So,
> > >
> > > -accel xen,kvm,tcg
> > >
> > > which would try Xen support first, then KVM and finaly tcg if none of
> > > the other works.
> > >
> > >        
> > Should use QemuOpts instead of parsing by hand.
> >      
> Ok for that.
>
>    
> > I'd rather it be
> > presented as a -machine option too with accel=xen:kvm:tcg to specify order.
> >      
> This is not clear to me, did you mean that you prefer to have both
> "-accel accels" and "-machine accel=accels" options?
>    

Just -machine accel=accels.

Part of my rational is that accelerator is a machine property.  If you 
do -M xenpv it ought to imply -machine accel=xen.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

> For the -machine options, I can put it in qemu-config.c and it will be
> saved.
>
> Regards,
>
>